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The Sensualist (novella)

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The Sensualist: a cautionary tale is a novella by the Anglo-Indian author Ruskin Bond which created a stir when it was charged with obscenity in Mumbai.[1] It first appeared over twenty years ago and was then first published in book form in 1999 by Penguin Book India.[2]

It was included along with A handful of nuts in the volume Strangers in the nights : two novellas;[3] this volume was translated into Hindi[4] and included in the anthology of his fiction.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Anuj Kumar. The Hindu May 15, 2007 The Hindu
  2. ^ ISBN 978-0-14-306741-2 WorldCat
  3. ^ WorldCat
  4. ^ Bond, Ruskin, and Prabhat K. Singh. Rāta ke ajanabī. Dillī: Ātmārāma eṇḍa Saṃsa, 1998. ISBN 978-81-7043-343-9
  5. ^ Bond, Ruskin. The Complete Short Stories and Novels. New Delhi: Viking, 1996. ISBN 978-0-670-86835-3