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Ryünosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. 'Rashömon' and 'In a Bamboo Grove' inspired Kurosawa's...
This masterpiece from the Nobel Prize-winning author and acclaimed writer of Thousand Cranes is a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan. * "Kawabata's novels are among the most affecting and original works of...
Explores an adolescent's response to his mother's love affair with a handsome visitor to Yokohama.
Dostoevsky's greatest novel is a story of murder told with hair-raising intellectual clarity and a feeling for the human condition unsurpassed in world literature. Fyodor Dostoevsky's final novel, published just before his death in 1881,...
"George Orwell wrote lots of other things than 1984 and Animal Farm. He wrote other, even finer novels and many essays on a wide range of subjects. This comic novel is absolutely wonderful. Its narrator/protagonist is a 45-year-old self-described, ..."
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