About the Book

A COLLECTION OF FIFTEEN CLASSIC INSPIRATIONAL STORIES BY SOME OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST AUTHORS, THAT FILLS YOU WITH COURAGE, CURIOSITY AND HOPE.
A poor couple that gives up their only treasures for each other, an illiterate caretaker of a church whose one flaw turns out to be his making, a man who gives away his last sovereign and watches the kindness find its way back to him...
Some stories are told over and over, not for their danger or drama, but for the courage, curiosity or hope that they fill you with. They stay with you long after the last page is turned, changing the way you see the world. In this collection curated by Ruskin Bond a storyteller who has spent his own life finding the good in people and giving it a voice are fifteen inspirational tales by the greats of literature, among them O. Henry, Leo Tolstoy, Oscar Wilde, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Guy de Maupassant and W. Somerset Maugham.
Every story in this jewel of a collection leaves you a little more hopeful than it found you.

About the Author

Ruskin Bond is India s most-loved and read children s author. His first novel, The Room on the Roof, written when he was seventeen years old, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957.
Since then, he has written several novels, essays, poems and children s books. He has also written over 500 short stories and articles that have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993 and the Padma Shri in 1999.