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=== Translations === Premchand translated several non-Hindi works into Hindi. These included the writings of [[Ratan Nath Dhar Sarshar]], [[Charles Dickens]] (''The Story of Richard Doubledick''), [[Oscar Wilde]] (''Canterville''), [[John Galsworthy]] (''Strife''), [[Saadi Shirazi]], [[Guy de Maupassant]], [[Maurice Maeterlinck]] (''[[The Blind (play)|The Sightless]]'') and [[Hendrik Willem van Loon]] (''[[The Story of Mankind]]'').<ref name="Sheldon2003">{{cite book |last=Pollock |first=Sheldon I. |author-link=Sheldon Pollock | title=Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia | url=https://archive.org/details/literarycultures00poll | url-access=limited | year=2003 | publisher=University of California Press | isbn=978-0-520-22821-4 | page=[https://archive.org/details/literarycultures00poll/page/n1047 1011] }}</ref><ref name="Narain1999">{{cite book | last=Narain |first=Govind | title=Premchand, Novelist and Thinker | year=1999 | publisher=Pragati Publications | isbn=978-81-7307-059-4 | page = 29 }}</ref> Some of the translated titles include: {| class="wikitable" |- ! Premchand's title ! Original |- | ''Ahankar'' | ''[[Thaïs (novel)|Thaïs]]'' by [[Anatole France]]<ref name="DavidRubin1994">{{cite book |last=Rubin |first=David |author-link=David Rubin (writer)|chapter=Short Stories of Premchand |editor-last=Miller |editor-first=Barbara Stoler |editor-link=Barbara Stoler Miller |title=Masterworks of Asian Literature in Comparative Perspective: A Guide for Teaching |year=1994 |publisher=[[M. E. Sharpe]] |isbn=978-1-56324-258-8 |pages=168–177}}</ref> ([[literary adaptation|adaptation]]) |- | ''Azad Katha'' | ''[[Fasana-e-Azad]]'' (1880) by [[Ratan Nath Dhar Sarshar]] |- | ''Parvat Yatra'' | ''Sair-e-Kohsar'' (1890) by Ratan Nath Dhar Sarshar |- | ''Chandi ki Dibiya'' | ''[[The Silver Box]]'' (1906) by [[John Galsworthy]] |- | ''Hartal'' | ''[[Strife (play)|Strife]]'' (1909) by John Galsworthy |- | ''Nyaya'' | ''[[Justice (play)|Justice]]'' (1910) by John Galsworthy |- | ''Sukhdas'' | ''[[Silas Marner]]'' by [[George Eliot]]<ref name="Nagendra1981">{{cite book | author=Nagendra | title=Premchand: An Anthology | year=1981|publisher=Bansal | oclc = 8668427 | page = 70 }}</ref> (adaptation) |- | ''Tolstoy ki Kahaniyan'' | Stories of [[Leo Tolstoy]] |}
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