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    Murder in the Age of Enlightenment

    Ryunosuke Akutagawa

    These are short stories from an unparalleled icon of modern Japanese literature. Sublimely crafted and shot through with a fantastical sensibility, they offer dazzling glimpses into moments of madness, murder…

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    Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

    Ryunosuke Akutagawa

    Ryunosuke 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. This work features…

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    Akutagawa’s Rashomon and Other Stories

    Ryunosuke Akutagawa

    A famous samurai murder mystery is finally brought to life in graphic novel form! A sword-swinging samurai, a corpse-robbing crone and a falsely accused trans man stand at the center…

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    In Dreams

    Ryunosuke Akutagawa

    In Dreams brings together fifty-one works for the first time in English by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, the "father of the Japanese short story" and one of the most important writers of…

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    Rashomon and Other Stories

    Ryunosuke Akutagawa,Seiji Lippit

    Clear-eyed glimpses of human behavior in the extremities of poverty, stupidity, greed, vanity Story-telling of an unconventional sort, with most of the substance beneath the shining, enameled surface. The New…

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    * Best - Akutagawa Ryunosuke

    Ryunosuke Akutagawa

    10 Selected Short Stories by Akutagawa Ryunosuke Large Print with Japanese language Good for Japanese Learners & Fans !

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    Cogwheels & Other Stories

    Ryunosuke Akutagawa

    From the literary giant of Japan, who is often referred to as the Godfather of the Japanese short story , and after whom the most coveted literary prize of Japan…

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    Murder in the Age of Enlightenment: Essential Stories

    Ryunosuke Akutagawa,Ryunosuke Akutagawa

    ‘One never tires of reading and re-reading his best works. Akutagawa was a born short-story writer’ - Haruki Murakami

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    Kappa

    Ryunosuke Akutagawa

    The Kappa is a creature from Japanese folklore described as a scaly, child-sized being with a face like a tiger and a sharp, pointed beak. This work describes one man’s…

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    The Beautiful and the Grotesque

    Ryunosuke Akutagawa

    From one of the masters of the short story comes an unforgettable collection of haunting and strange tales.

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    Rashomon and Other Stories

    Ryunosuke Akutagawa

    This fascinating collection gave birth to a new paradigm when Akira Kurosawa made famous Akutagawa’s disturbing tale of seven people recounting the same incident from shockingly different perspectives.

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    Japanese Short Stories

    Ryunosuke Akutagawa

    Written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, the uncontested master of the short story in modern Japanese literature, the stories in this anthology are perfect examples of the decadent aesthetic, with the gorgeous…

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    Three Japanese Short Stories

    Ryunosuke Akutagawa,Kafu Nagai,Chiyo Uno

    Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

    ‘Oh the cruelty of time, that…

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    Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

    Ryunosuke Akutagawa

    Written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa - one of Japan’s foremost stylists and a modernist master whose short stories are marked by imagery, cynicism, beauty, and wild humour. His other works include…

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    A Study Guide for Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s In a Grove

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    A Study Guide for Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s In a Grove, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…

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    Hell Screen

    Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Jay Rubin (trans.)

    Akutagawa was one of the towering figures of modern Japanese literature, and is considered the father of the Japanese short story. This paradigmatic selection, which includes the stories that inspired…

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    Patient X: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa

    David Peace (Author)

    Ryuosuke Akutagawa was one of Japan’s great writers. He lived through Japan’s turbulent Taisho period, including the devastating 1923 earthquake, only to take his own life at the age of…

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    Patient X: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa

    David Peace

    Ryuosuke Akutagawa was one of Japan’s great writers. He lived through Japan’s turbulent Taisho period, including the devastating 1923 earthquake, only to take his own life at the age of…

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    Kappa

    Ryunosuke Akutagawa

    Akutagawa's magical final work is a short novel with a magic spell all its own-poignant, fantastical, wry, melancholic and witty

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    The Life of a Stupid Man

    Ryunosuke Akutagawa

    Includes autobiographical stories from one of Japan’s masters of modernist story-telling - Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927).

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    Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

    Ryunosuke Akutagawa

    A collectible hardcover edition of the best stories by the father of the Japanese short story-including the two that inspired Kurosawa's classic samurai film about the subjectivity of truth-featuring an…

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    Rashomon

    Ryunosuke Akutagawa

    Includes stories: In a Grove , a tale about murder, rape, and suicide; Rashomon , the story of a thief scared into honesty by an encounter with a ghoul; The…

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    Rashomon and Other Stories

    Ryunosuke Akutagawa

    This collection gave birth to a new paradigm when Akira Kurosawa’s film Rashomon , made famous Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s disturbing tale of seven people recounting the same incident from shockingly different…

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    Der Aphorismus ALS Epos Bei Akutagawa Ryunosuke: Eine Gesamtdeutung Aus Der Perspektive Der Aphoristischen Tradition Im Deutschen Sprachraum

    Dietmar Heidenreich

    Die Grundthese dieser Arbeit erscheint so paradox wie die literarische Gattung, die hier zum erstenmal in der japanologischen Forschung thematisiert wird: Ausgerechnet in dem in Japan fast unbekannten, per Definition…

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    Pets

    Ryunosuke Akutagawa,Ann Beattie,Raegan Bird,Blake Butler

    This anthology collects original writing and art by novelists, poets, and academics about their pets, including a killer chihuahua, a catatonic toy poodle, a contraband cat, a backyard full of…

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    Seven Rooms

    Co-published by Tenement Press and Prototype, Seven Rooms brings together highlights from the archive of Hotel, a magazine for new approaches to fiction, non-fiction & poetry which, since its inception…

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