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And Then by Soseki Natsume
Category: Fiction | Series: Tuttle Classics Ser.
"And Then," ranked as one of Soseki Natsume's most insightful and stirring novels, tells the story of Daisuke, a young Japanese man struggling with his personal purpose and identity, as well as the changing social landscape of Meiji-era Japan. As Japan enters the 20th century, ancient customs give way t ...Show more
Botchan by Soseki Natsume
Category: Fiction | Series: Tuttle Classics Ser.
"Botchen," a timeless Japanese novel written by JapanAEs most beloved novelist, Soseki Natsume, is now available in a revised edition featuring a new foreword by Dennis Washburn, Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages at Dartmouth College. Prof. Washburn's foreword places the importance of both ...Show more
Botchan by Natsume Soseki
Category: Fiction
Botchan is a modern young man from the Tokyo metropolis, sent to the ultra-traditional Matsuyama district as a Maths teacher after his the death of his parents. Cynical, rebellious and immature, Botchan finds himself facing several tests, from the pupils - prone to playing tricks on their new, naive tea ...Show more
Botchan by Natsume Soseki
Category: Classics
New in Penguin Japanese Classics- Japan's favourite novel about growing up and finding yourself Introducing Penguin Japanese Classics- a collection of some of Japan's most celebrated and ground-breaking 20th century writers, with covers inspired by Japanese art and design. Taking us from a sun-drenched ...Show more
I Am a Cat: The Manga Edition by Soseki Natsume
Category: Gift Books
Japan's beloved literary masterpiece brought to life in manga form! Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirises the foolishness of upper-middle-class Japanese society in early 20th century Tokyo. Written with biting wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a ra ...Show more
I am a Cat by Soseki Natsume
Category: Fiction | Series: Tuttle Classics Ser.
"A nonchalant string of anecdotes and wisecracks, told by a fellow who doesn't have a name, and has never caught a mouse, and isn't much good for anything except watching human beings in action..." --The New Yorker Written from 1904 through 1906, Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes ...Show more
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
Category: Fiction | Series: Translator Meredith McKinney
"Kokoro", meaning 'heart', is a tantalizing novel about the friendship between a young man and an enigmatic elder whom he calls Sensei. Set in the early twentieth century, when the death of the emperor Meiji gave way to a new era in Japanese politicial and cultural life, the novel enacts the transition ...Show more
Sanshiro by Natsume Soseki
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
Natsume Soseki's only coming-of-age novel, Sanshiro depicts the eponymous twenty-three-year-old protagonist as he leaves the sleepy countryside to attend a university in the constantly moving "real world" of Tokyo. Baffled and excited by the traffic, the academics, and-most of all-the women, Sanshiro mu ...Show more
Sanshiro by Natsume Soseki
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins
'Even bigger than Japan is the inside of your head. Don't ever surrender yourself - not to Japan, not to anything' A shy, unworldly young student has his eyes opened to Tokyo's bustling metropolis, in this delicate, bitter-sweet work of innocence and experience from Japan's foremost modern novelist. Ten ...Show more