The Great Retreat
Ruskin Bond . Rupa Publications India . English
�As they went on, the tilt of the floor increased so that it was hard to keep a footing on it, and then a swing of trev�s torch showed that an ominous-looking crevasses had opened at its lower edge. Suddenly there was a cry from Judy as her foot slipped and she slid down with her legs hanging over the black depths of the crevasse.� The great retreat is an anthology of exciting short fiction written by some of the most popular names of the nineteenth and twentieth century. Selected by Ruskin Bond, stories of adventure, suspense, and horror spill out of these pages, each with a nail-biting climax that will set your heart racing. From R.L. Stevenson and Oscar cook to Sylvia Green and Nikolai S. Leskov among others, This book opens up a world of fantasy where danger and threat lurk in every corner as do shape-shifting wolves and the walking Dead!.
Categories: Non Fiction
About the Author
Ruskin Bond is the author of several bestselling novels and collections of short stories, essays, and poems. These include: <i>The Hoopoe on the Lawn; The Hill of Enchantment; The Room on the Roof (winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize); A Flight of Pigeons; T he Night Train at Deoli; Time Stops at Shamli; Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra (winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award); Angry River; T he Blue Umbrella; Delhi Is Not Far; Rain in the Mountains; Tigers for Dinner; Tales of Fosterganj; A Gathering of Friends; Upon an Old Wall Dreaming; Small Towns, Big Stories; Unhurried Tales; A Gallery of Rascals; Rhododendrons in the Mist; Miracle at Happy Bazaar (winner of the Kalinga Literary Festival Children�s Book of the Year, 2021); It�s a Wonderful Life; The Shadow on the Wall; Song of the Forest; The Last Tiger; The Gold Collection; and The Night Has a Thousand Eyes. </i><br><br> He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999, a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Delhi government in 2012, the Padma Bhushan in 2014, the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 2021, and the Ramnath Goenka Sahithya Samman Lifetime Achievement Award in 2024.
