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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,...
"Clear-eyed glimpses of human behavior in the extremities of poverty, stupidity, greed, vanity… Story-telling of an unconventional sort, with most o...
Rashoumon is a short story by Akutagawa Ryunosuke based on tales from the Konjaku Monogatarishu. A man considering whether or not to become a thief me...
Akutagawa’s magical final work is a short novel with a magic spell all its own—poignant, fantastical, wry, melancholic, and witty The Kappa is a c...
'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!' Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the Prison...
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed ...
'What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.' Autobiographical stories from one of Japan's master...
Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or n...
10 Selected Short Stories by Akutagawa Ryunosuke Large Print with Japanese language Good for Japanese Learners & Fans !...
The Manga Edition
A famous samurai murder mystery finally brought to life in graphic novel form! A sword-swinging samurai, a corpse-robbing crone and a falsely accused ...
3 Strange Tales presents new translations of this classic Japanese author's most well-known stories: Rashomon; A Christian Death; the never-before-pub...
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ISFPs are introverted, but once the initial barrier is overcome, they are affectionate and fun; the typical ISFP wants to live life to the fullest! In...
"Hell Screen" by Ryunosuke Akutagawa is a dark, psychological short story about an obsessive artist named Yoshihide. Commissioned by a powerful lord t...
Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Prefiguring the vital modernist voices of the Western literary canon, Akutagawa writes with a trenchant psychological precision that exposes the shift...
Transl. by Takashi Kojima
The stories included in this anthology take us back to feudal Japan, a country ravaged by wars, hunger and social injustice, forming a tormented scena...
"In a Grove" is an early modernist short story consisting of seven varying accounts of the murder of a samurai, Kanazawa no Takehiro, whose corpse has...
The first Taiwanese translation! The genius Ryunosuke Akutagawa, a selection of short stories on philosophy of life Reading Taiwanese at the moment: a...
A compelling horror story about the lengths an artist will go to for the sake of his art! Based on a traditional tale, the plot centers around the gre...
This anthology collects original writing and art by novelists, poets, and academics about their pets, including a killer chihuahua, a catatonic toy po...
A Drama in Two Acts