Rabindranath Tagore's contemporaries wrote short stories that share certain similarities in tone and plot elements. Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeia is very similar to Tagore's In the Middle of the Night and provides a useful example of what was happening in literature in the U.S. at the time Tagore was writing.
Tagore has a rich body of works spanning other genres, including poetry and drama. The Post Office is one of his most well known plays, containing elements that will be familiar to students who are studying the stories including chronic illness, fantasy, elevation of high status figures, and the use of the meta in the telling of the story (it is a play within a play). Notably, there is...
