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Ryunosuke Akutagawa's Hell Screen: The Manga Edition Ryunosuke Akutagawa 9784805318232
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.38A 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 great artist, Yoshihide, who despite his talent is... -
Kappa by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.54The Kappa is a creature from Japanese folklore known for dragging unwary toddlers to their deaths in rivers: a scaly, child-sized creature, looking something like a frog, but with a sharp, pointed... -
Hell Screen by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith... -
The Life of a Stupid Man by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
RRP: $5.36Booksplease Price: $4.02'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 masters of modernist story-telling.Introducing Little... -
Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa 9780871401731
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.48Writing at the beginning of the twentieth century, Ryunosuke Akutagawa created disturbing stories out of Japan's cultural upheaval. Whether his fictions are set centuries past or close to the... -
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Ryunosuke 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. 'Rashoemon' and... -
Rashomon and Other Stories Ryunosuke Akutagawa 9784805314630
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09Widely acknowledged as the father of the Japanese short story, Ryunosuke Akutagawa remains one of the most influential Japanese writers of all time. Rashomon and Other Stories, a collection of his... -
Cogwheels & Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa 9781771610674
RRP: $18.09Booksplease Price: $13.67From 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 is named, the Akutagawa Prize, comes... -
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa 9780143137887
RRP: $37.52Booksplease Price: $24.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143137887Author Ryunosuke AkutagawaFormat HardbackPage Count 336Impri -
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa 9780143039846
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Ryunosuke 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. 'Rashoemon' and... -
Murder in the Age of Enlightenment: Essential Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa 9781805330295
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'One never tires of reading and re-reading his best works. Akutagawa was a born short-story writer' Haruki Murakami 'The quintessential writer of his era' David Peace These are short stories... -
Hell of Solitude: Selected Writings of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Ryūnosuke Akutagawa 9781913513863
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $12.01Hell of Solitude presents a varied and eclectic selection of writings by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, one of the most important and beloved Japanese writers of the twentieth century. Bringing together... -
The Essential Akutagawa: Twenty-Two Short Stories by the Japan's Master Storyteller Ryunosuke Akutagawa 9784805317990
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $13.24"Akutagawa displays an insightful and keenly creative intelligence in prose so lucid its sophistication is hardly visible." -Chris Power, The GuardianJapan's master storyteller Ryunosuke Akutagawa... -
The Rainbow Yasunari Kawabata 9780241542293
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'In this masterpiece Kawabata, his brush dipped in silver, renders all the excruciating anguish and beauty of post-war Japan' Edmund WhiteWith the Second World War only a few years in the past, and... -
Akutagawa's Rashomon and Other Stories: The Manga Edition mkdeville 9784805318393
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.19A 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 of these four... -
Three Japanese Short Stories by 9780241339749
Booksplease Price: $4.02'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, Uno's Closet LLB and Akutagawa's deeply macabre... -
Bungo Stray Dogs, Vol. 1 (light novel) by Kafka Asagiri 9781975303228
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.58Doppo Kunikida is an idealist and a strait-laced detective at the Armed Detective Agency, an organization that takes on dangerous jobs that even the police won't handle. Everything in his life is... -
Great Japanese Stories: 10 Parallel Texts by Jay Rubin 9780241634479
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65A captivating selection of short stories in the original Japanese alongside their English translationsThis new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Japanese Short... -
The Three Crabs: KANATA 1 Oba Minako 9781913861957
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.40"The dark waves were eerie, the water as deep and warm as the mouth of some vast leviathan, enveloping them with the warmth of a giant tongue. They were large, tepid waves that sucked them in and... -
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories by Jay Rubin
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.37A major anthology of great Japanese short stories introduced by Haruki MurakamiThis is a celebration of the Japanese short story from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to remarkable... -
The Flight Gaito Gazdanov 9781805332091
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'The Gazdanov revival ... is nothing short of a literary event' TLS'Gazdanov is a modernist master' Mary O'Donoghue Irish Times'The Flight is a suave, cosmopolitan human comedy with a twist ... All... -
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories by Jay Rubin 9780141395623
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $31.62A major new anthology of great Japanese short stories introduced by Haruki MurakamiThis fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its modern origins... -
Cold Mountain Zen by Hanshan 9780811240284
Booksplease Price: $16.55The Tang Dynasty poet Hanshan ("cold mountain") and his friend Shide ("foundling") are among the most iconic figures in the history of Zen Buddhism. Variously described as Buddhists, mystics, crazy... -
Modern Japanese Short Stories: An Anthology of 25 Short Stories by Japan's Leading Writers by I. Morris
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.55Modern Japanese Short Stories is a remarkable collection of Japanese stories from the pioneers of contemporary Japanese literature. This volume's twenty-five stories by as many authors display a wide... -
The Best Japanese Short Stories: Works by 14 Modern Masters: Kawabata, Akutagawa and More by Lane Dunlop
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.85An anthology of the greatest stories by modern Japanese masters (including previously overlooked women writers)!Fourteen distinct voices are assembled in this one-of-a-kind anthology tracing a... -
Sakura: A Novel by Kanako Nishi 9780063389946
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.14Available in English at last, the international bestseller from one of Japan's most acclaimed authors, a touching tale of a broken family contending with the pain of the past to live in the present,... -
Swallows Natsuo Kirino 9781837263028
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65Twenty-nine-year-old Riki is sick of her dead-end job, of struggling to get by ever since she moved to Tokyo from the country. So when someone offers her the chance to become a surrogate in return...