Three Japanese Short Stories

£4.00

by Akutagawa, Ryunosuke | Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Published 22/02/2018 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of the Penguin Modern series
Paperback | 64 pages

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Description

‘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 General Kim.

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York’s underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

Additional information

Weight 46 g
Dimensions 167 × 112 × 5 mm