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No Man Is An Island is a short-story collection from Ruskin Bond which explore friendship and trust. Summary of the Book Ruskin Bond's familiar and subtle style tell the stories of youth, companionship and mutual trust, and in each of these stories, he shows readers time and again that man is a social animal, never alone and forever in want of companionship. In memorable stories such as The Woman on Platform No. 8 where a young boy meets a mysterious stranger, and The Crooked Tree, wherein a writer and a hawker form an unnatural bond, this message comes alive. No man is an island, complete in itself. Instead, all men are part of a large continent, a part of the mainland. About Ruskin Bond Ruskin Bond is a British-Indian writer. He is known best for his children's stories. Some of his works are: The Room on the Roof, A Flight of Pigeons, The Sensualist, The Blue Umbrella, Angry River, The Parrot Who Wouldn't Talk and The Blue Umbrella. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan for his contributions towards Indian literature and the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra. He now lives in in Landour, near Mussoorie with his adopted family.