Rabindranath Tagore is the greatest poet, writer and public figure of India, kabiguru - poet-teacher, as his compatriots called him. Tagore's work played a huge role not only in the development of Bengali and Indian literature, but even Indian music - he is the author of about 2000 songs. Tagore’s prose combines psychologism and poetry, romance and everyday life, dramatic and comic, this is a colorful and realistic depiction of life in India at the beginning of the 20th century. The book includes the novels “A Grain of Sand” and “Crash”, poems from the collection “Gitanjali”, awarded a Nobel Prize Prize for Literature (1913), “for deeply felt, original and beautiful poems in which his poetic thinking was expressed with exceptional skill” and a poem from the novel “The Last Poem.”