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Hell Screen by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Category: Classic Fiction
Introducing Little Clothbound Penguin Classics - irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Akutagawa was one of the towering figures of modern Japanese literature, and is considered the fathe ...Show more
Hell Screen by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Category: Fiction
'He had the Ten Kings of Hell and their minions over in one small corner, and everything else - the entire screen - was enveloped in a firestorm so terrible you thought the swirling flames were going to melt the mountain of Sabres and the Forest of Swords.' One of the towering figures of modern Japanese ...Show more
In DreamsThe Very Short Stories Of Ryunosuke Akutagawa by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Category: Fiction
Japanese Short Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Category: Short Stories | Series: Japanese Classics Ser.
Kappa by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Category: Fiction
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. In the hands of Ryunosuke Akutagawa, one man's journey to Kappaland becomes the vehicle for a critique of Japanese life and customs in the tradition of Swift and Kaf ...Show more
Kappa by G. H. (INT) Geoffrey (TRN); Healey Ryunosuke; Bownas Akutagawa
Category: Fiction | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classic
Life of a Stupid Man: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #56 by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Category: Classic Fiction
'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 Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and ...Show more
Murder in the Age of Enlightenment - Essential Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa; Tom Clohosy Cole (Illustrator); Bryan Karetnyk
Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
'One never tires of reading and re-reading his best works. Akutagawa was a born short-story writer' - Haruki Murakami
Murder in the Age of Enlightenment - Essential Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa; Brian Karetnyk (Translator)
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Essential Stories Ser.
'One never tires of reading and re-reading his best works. Akutagawa was a born short-story writer' - Haruki Murakami
Rashomon by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Category: Fiction
The stories included in this classic collection include: "In a Grove", a psychologically sophisticated tale about murder, rape, and suicide; "Rashomon", the story of a thief scared into honesty by an encounter with a ghoul; "The Martyr" tells the story of silent suffering in Christian Nagasaki; and "Kes ...Show more
Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Tuttle Classics Ser.
Widely acknowledged as "the father of the Japanese short story," Ryunosuke Akutagawa remains one of the most influential Japanese writers in history. Rashomon and Other Stories, a collection of his most celebrated work, resonates as strongly today as when it first published a century ago.