OverviewCollected Short Stories is a compilation of short stories by Ruskin Bond, published by Penguin Books in 2016.SynopsisThis book is a collection of some of the many short stories Ruskin Bond has written over the course of his career, and there are 70 stories in total. Bond is famous for his lucid, clear language, with which he manages to impress the situation upon the reader. Readers usually findthemselves heavily invested in the characters, and the settings of the story. His stories are known for invoking laughter and sympathy out of the reader, in equal measure. A must-read for fans of contemporary English fiction, some of these short stories are guaranteed to be the best you'll ever read.About the AuthorBorn in 1940, Ruskin Bond was an English native born in Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh. His first short story, The Room on the Roof received the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957, just when he was 17. He has authored a number of novels, short stories, poems, essays and children's books too. Bond has received many awards over his career, including Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993, Padma Shri in 1999 and Padma Bhushan in 2014.