Literary giant Premchand's stories are the stories of the largest and most widespread section of the Indian society. He has written novels, short stories, plays, commentaries, essays, editorials and memoirs, although he was primarily a fiction writer. He has written 15 novels, more than 300 short stories, 3 plays, 10 translations, 7 children's books and editorials, lectures, prefaces, letters etc that run into thousands of pages. His novels, Godaan and Gaban, and his short stories, Shatranj ke Khilaadi , Kafan, etc. were made into films. Sevasadan, Premaashram, Rangbhumi, Karmabhumi, Nirmala etc. are his other prominent works.Godan has a live depiction of Indian village society and environment. Godan is epic of rural life and agriculture culture. As the family of Hero and Heroine of Godan Hori and Dhaniya we find a special culture of Indian alive and living, a culture which is now ending or is going to happen, ye in which the soil of India is filled.
