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Synopsis The book aims at an appraisal of R.N. Tagore’s novels in English translations. It highlights his thematic concerns and novelistic technique. The book also provides a comprehensive and authentic account of his literary genius and his vision of the human predicament. It contains a faithful profile of his age marked by profound convulsions in individual and collective consciousness. This specific study of Tagore’s novels based on the themes of humanism and nationalism has shown his position and achievement in the domain of Indian fiction. The book studies Tagore’s art of writing novels for promotion of human value and national integration. Making an attempt to define and interpret Humanism and Nationalism, and their application as themes of novels by the great Indo-Anglian novelists and R.N. Tagore, the book provides a critique of R.N. Tagore’s nine novels so far translated into English. It concludes with a brief critique on R.N. Tagore’s final vision of life and man.