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And Then by Soseki Natsume
$22.99 AUD
Category: General 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
$18.99 AUD
Category: General 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
Dream of the Red Chamber - An Epic Story of Women's Lives in Imperial China by Cao Xueqin; H. Bencraft Joly (Translator); John Minford (Foreword by); Edwin Lowe (Introduction by)
$49.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Tuttle Classics Ser.
"One of the great novels of world literature...to the Chinese as Proust is to the French or Karamazov to the Russians." --Anthony West, literary criticDream of the Red Chamber is renowned for its epic scope, rich psychological characterizations and telling observations on family life and the role of wom ...Show more
Five Women Who Loved Love: Amorous Tales from 17th-Century Japan by Ihara Saikaku
$19.99 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Tuttle Classics
"Five charming novellas which have astonishing freshness, color, and warmth." The New Yorker First published in 1686, this collection of five novellas was an immediate bestseller in the bawdy world that was Genroku Japan, and the book's popularity has increased with age, making it today a literary class ...Show more
I am a Cat - Three Volumes by Soseki, Natsume
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Tuttle Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"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
Izu Dancer And Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Tuttle Classics Ser.
As six Izu travellers journey together, intimacy develops and friendship overcomes class differences. Capturing the shy eroticism of adolescence, The Izu Dancer paints a charming picture of the times.
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Tuttle Classics Ser.
This collection of Japanese supernatural stories is a classic work in the field of Japanese horror. Known primarily as an early interpreter of Japanese culture and customs, the famous writer Lafcadio Hearn also wrote ghost stories--"delicate, transparent, ghostly sketches"--about his adopted land. Many ...Show more
Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
$16.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | 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.
Shogun: The Life and Times of Tokugawa Ieyasu: Japan's Greatest Ruler by A. L. Sadler
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Tuttle Classics Ser.
Uncover the true story of the man who unified medieval Japan. For 700 years, Japan was ruled by military commanders with absolute authority, while the emperor remained a figurehead. This book tells the fascinating story of Tokugawa Ieyasu — the greatest of all Japanese Shoguns, who unified and pacified ...Show more
Taiheiki a Chronicle of Medieval太平記 by Helen Craig McCullough (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature Ser.
An epic saga of samurai warfare in medieval Japan This celebrated literary classic has delighted generations of Japanese. In its pages, you will find a vivid contemporary description of the fourteenth-century intrigues and battles that led to the destruction of the Hojo family, the military overlord ...Show more
The Heike Story by YOSHIKAWA EIJI
$39.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Tuttle Classics Ser.
The Heike Story is a modern translation of a Japanese classic. Kyoto in the twelfth century was a magnificent city, but crime, disorder, and lust were rampant. The people were abused by the nobility, while armed Buddhist monks terrorized court and commoner alike. In despair, the Emperor called upon ...Show more
The Tale of Genji: The Authentic First Translation of the World's Earliest Novel by Murasaki Shikibu
$16.99 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Tuttle Classics Ser.
The most famous work of Japanese literature and the world's first novel--The Tale of Genji was written a thousand years ago and is one of the enduring classics of world literature. Written centuries before the time of Shakespeare and even Chaucer, The Tale of Genji marks the birth of the novel--and af ...Show more