This volume brings together the best of Ruskin Bond's prose and poetry. For over five decades, by way of innumerable novels, essays, short stories and poems, the author has mapped out and peopled a unique literary landscape. Ruskin's fiction is alive with anecdotes, humour and acute observations, and his poetry reveals a deeply sensitive mind. Readers may be caught by surprise when they discover an undercurrent of sensuality that runs through the entire volume. The Best of Ruskin Bond has selections from all of his major books and includes the classic novella Delhi Is Not Far.