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The hilarious writing of James Thurber, author of 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty', collected in this classic anthology. This collection brings together the best of James Thurber's brilliantly funny, eccentric and anarchic writings. It includes his most famous work, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty , in which an ordinary man's fantasies have a more powerful hold on him than reality, as well as essays, poetry and cartoons gathered from all of Thurber's collections. Making fun of his own weaknesse...

発売日: 2014-01-30 ジャンル:小説／文学 ¥1,200

Modern 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 range of style and subject matter--offering a revealing picture of modern Japanese culture and society. The stories in this anthology include: "Tattoo" by Junichiro Tanizaki--a large spider tattooed on the back of a young woman results in unexpected changes"Autumn Mountain" by Ryunosuke Akutagawa--v...

発売日: 2019-07-16 ジャンル:小説／文学 ¥2,200

The fiction debut of Academy Award-nominated actor, playwright and New Yorker contributor Jesse Eisenberg. Bream Gives Me Hiccups: And Other Stories is the whip-smart fiction debut of Academy Award-nominated actor and star of The Social Network , Jesse Eisenberg. Known for his iconic film roles but also for his regular pieces in the New Yorker and his two critically acclaimed plays, Eisenberg is an emerging voice in fiction. Taking its title from a group of stories that begin the book, Bream Giv...

発売日: 2015-09-10 ジャンル:小説／文学 ¥660

Twenty Four Eyes is a deeply pacifist Japanese novel based on the perversion and inhumanity of modern war. Set on Shodoshima, a small island in the Inland Sea, and covering a twenty–year period embracing prewar, war–time, and early postwar Japan, it centers on the relationship between a primary school teacher, Miss Oishi, and the twelve island children (the twenty–four eyes of the title) in her first class. In the course of the novel, Miss Oishi faces problems of acceptance by the children...

発売日: 2012-01-10 ジャンル:小説／文学 ¥1,000

The last 50 years have proved a particularly lively period in the history of the short story form. This new collection gives a full picture of the richness and diversity of this most American of genres from its very beginnings to the present day. The collection offers a freshly stimulating combination of old favourites such as Mark Twain's 'Jim Smiley's Jumping Frog' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart', unfamiliar works by well-known authors, such as Ernest Hemingway's 'Out of Season', S...

発売日: 2011-10-06 ジャンル:小説／文学 ¥1,200

This Is Going to Hurt is a contemporary poetry anthology packed with potent honesty in regard to love, loss, and life. It is a journey, and a collection of the damages love, loss, and life can bring, which also teaches one how to accept heartache, embrace it and let it go. Written in hunger with venom, but more importantly, with love. Ebook edition only.

発売日: 2021-11-23 ¥150

Japanese Legends and Folklore invites English speakers into the intriguing world of Japanese folktales, ghost stories and historical eyewitness accounts. With a fascinating selection of stories about Japanese culture and history, A.B. Mitford--who lived and worked in Japan as a British diplomat--presents a broad cross section of tales from many Japanese sources. Discover more about practically every aspect of Japanese life--from myths and legends to society and religion. This book features 30 fa...

発売日: 2019-03-26 ジャンル:小説／文学 ¥1,700

'Rich. . . eclectic. . . a feast' Telegraph This landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition, from the birth of the modern nation to the end of the twentieth century. Poets, journalists, visual artists, musicians, editors, critics, teachers, scientists, politicians, translators: the writers that inhabit these pages represent a dynamic cross section of Italian society, their powerful voices resonating thr...

発売日: 2019-03-07 ジャンル:小説／文学 ¥1,400

'Sometimes - not often - a book comes along that feels like Christmas. Philip Hensher's timely, but timeless, selection of the best short stories from the past 20 years is that kind of book. His introduction is as enriching as anything that has been published this year' Sunday Times A spectacular treasury of the best British short stories published in the last twenty years We are living in a particularly rich period for British short stories. Despite the relative lack of places in which they can...

発売日: 2018-10-04 ジャンル:小説／文学 ¥1,200

This vintage book contains a detailed guide to palm reading. With simple explanations and helpful illustrations, it constitutes the perfect introduction to palmistry and fortune telling. "How to Know People by their Hands" is highly recommended for those with an interest in palm reading and chiromancy and would make for a worthy addition to collections of related literature. Contents include: "Types of Hands", "Fingers", "Thumb", "Palm", "Mounts of the...

発売日: 2017-09-06 ジャンル:小説／文学 ¥1,200

This collection of Japanese short stories reveals a rapidly changing Japanese society and the deep draw of its traditional culture. The first half of this century saw the coming of age of the Japanese short story. Influenced by Western literary techniques, such innovative writers as Shiga Naoya, Ozaki Shiro, Yasunari Kawabata, Shimaki Kensaku, Hayashi Fumiko, Dazai Osamu, and (somewhat later) Kobo Abe reassessed the Japanese story tradition and brought new vigor to the uniquely Japanese sense of...

発売日: 2016-02-03 ジャンル:小説／文学 ¥1,500

有中国人的地方就有豆腐,做菜配汤,配荤配素,无不适宜;苦辣酸甜,随心所欲。这是一本综合介绍豆腐的书,除了简单的豆腐菜单外,还包括有关豆腐的散文、考据、谚语、诗歌、传说、专访等,作者更包括中、日、韩、美、德各国人。作家们挖空心思写出他们心中的豆腐,使本书不但有菜单的实用,更具文学意义,是一本有思想、有情感的“中国豆腐”。

発売日: 2014-11-01 ¥650

Life is too short for a long story. 时间太少,小说太长,不如读一篇短故事。 什么东西可以在自己眼皮底下被堂而皇之的盗走?为什么被盗者诚惶诚恐而盗窃者有恃无恐?警察遍寻各个角落而寻求无果,失窃之物到底身处何方?

発売日: 2013-10-01 ¥200

“这个娃娃本来是给你的弟媳妇的,因为怕她不会好好待他,所以送给你。” 这是母亲在她的梦里听见的“送子娘娘”说的话。每当晴明的午后,母亲在她那间朝南的屋子里做针线的时候,她常常对我们弟兄姊妹(或者还有老妈子在场)叙述她这个奇怪的梦。

発売日: 2015-08-11 ¥400

这是一个行者的心灵旅程,是来自人和自然互赠性情的心灵之歌。书中收录多多诗作60余首,随笔40多篇,另有作者行脚途中若干摄影作品。

発売日: 2015-10-29 ¥650

算来已经是整整的七天七夜了,这秋季的淋雨还是索索地下着。昨夜起,又添了大风。呼呼地吹得帐幕像要倒坍下来似的震摇。偶尔风势稍杀,呜呜地像远处的悲笳;那时候,被盖住了的猖獗的雨声便又突然抬头,腾腾地宛然是军鼓催人上战场。

発売日: 2015-07-30 ¥350

Bold, brave and beautiful, Brave Enough is a gem-like collection of thoughts and aphorisms from Cheryl Strayed, the inspirational author of the bestselling Wild . 'Everyone should have at least two copies of Brave Enough : one to keep near the bath, and one to give out, generously, to whoever needs the help.' -- The Pool Across the world, millions of people have found life and depth in the words of Cheryl Strayed. Whether it has been in her bestselling memoir Wild or in her collection of advice ...

発売日: 2015-11-05 ジャンル:小説／文学 ¥660

A classic introduction to Latin literature, with translations of the best passages from Virgil, Livy, Ovid, Seneca and many others. This classic anthology traces the development of Latin literature from the early Republican works of Cicero and Catullus, to the writers of the Empire such as Lucan and Petronius, to the later writings of St Augustine. The selections cover comedy and epic, history and philosophy, in prose and in verse, and each passage is prefaced by an introduction to the author an...

発売日: 2015-04-30 ジャンル:小説／文学 ¥1,400

China's most popular traditional novel, Journey to the West is the thrilling story of the Monkey King and his epic quest, with his trusted companions, to redeem himself. They face fantastic foes, demons and monsters during their amazing adventures traveling to the Western paradise. No matter what obstacle was put before him, the clever, wily Monkey King always got what he wanted-unimaginable strength, eternal life, even his own position in the Celestial Realm with the gods. More than anything el...

発売日: 2008-09-15 ジャンル:小説／文学 ¥1,000

This classic collection of Japanese ghost and folk stories is of enormous importance to the field of Japanese studies. Japanese curios, with sundry cobwebs, excite the curiosity and imagination of a master spinner of tales, and the result is Kotto, another Lafcadio Hearn classic about old Japan. Here Hearn spins tales from old Japanese books to illustrate some strange beliefs. They are only curios, he says laconically, but some of these legends will make your spine tingle and your heart trip fas...

発売日: 2012-10-02 ジャンル:小説／文学 ¥950

This collection of mystery and horror stories is regarded as Japan's answer to Edgar Allan Poe. Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination , the first volume of its kind translated into English, is written with the quick tempo of the West but rich with the fantasy of the East. These nine bloodcurdling, chilling tales present a genre of literature largely unknown to readers outside Japan, including the strange story of a quadruple amputee and his perverse wife; the record of a man who creates a ...

発売日: 2011-06-07 ジャンル:小説／文学 ¥1,500

Burial in the Clouds is the first English language translation of Hiroyuki Agawa's classic novel of World War II, Kumo No Bohyo . A powerful novel, it takes the form of the war-time diary of a young Japanese college student inducted into the Imperial Navy at the height of World War II. Trained as a combat pilot, he is transferred to one of the new "special attack" or "kamikaze" units when the tide of the war turns against Japan. Like many young men of his generation, Jiro Yoshino, once a scholar...

発売日: 2006-09-15 ジャンル:小説／文学 ¥1,700

Based on a true story, Shiokari Pass is a moving tale of love eclipsed by sacrifice and tragedy. The hero of this Japanese novel is the young and idealistic Nobuo Nagano, who finds himself forced to make a heart-rending decision, when he must choose between his childhood sweetheart, Fujiko, and his newly found Christian faith. Set in Hokkaido at the turn of the nineteenth century, when for the first time Western culture and ideas were beginning to challenge Japan's long-held traditions, Shiokari...

発売日: 2011-12-20 ジャンル:小説／文学 ¥1,100

This Japanese literature collection contains four translated stories from two of Japan's most beloved and acclaimed fiction writers. The Izu Dancer , Yasunari Kawabata's first work to bring him recognition as a writer, is a novella about six Izu Peninsula travelers. As the six travelers journey together, intimacy develops and friendship overcomes class differences. Capturing the shy eroticism of adolescence, The Izu Dancer is a charming picture of the times. Yasushi Inoue's The Counterfeiter , a...

発売日: 2011-12-20 ジャンル:小説／文学 ¥800

This classic Japanese story by Soseki Netsume—the foremost novelist of the Meiji Period--is a masterpiece of Japanese literature. This book demonstrates Soseki Natsume's ability to dissect and elucidate the human personality in all its complexity. Here, his facile blending of narrative, extended monologue and sharp dialog leaves the reader with an almost personal knowledge of the characters. We are introduced to Keitaro, a recent college graduate hunting for his first job; he is the hero throu...

発売日: 2012-02-14 ジャンル:小説／文学 ¥1,000

This collection brings together three of Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing’s most acclaimed novels. Her first novel, The Grass is Singing, is the story of Mary, a new wife, lonely and trapped in the African bush, until she turns to Moses, the black cook, for kindness and understanding. A landmark of twentieth-century literature, The Golden Notebok is a powerful account of Anna Wulf, a woman searching for her personal and political identity, recording her emotional and creative lives in notebook...

発売日: 2013-12-19 ジャンル:小説／文学 ¥2,200

A compilation of Charles Bukowski's underground articles from his column "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" appears here in book form. Bukowski's reasoning for self-describing himself as a 'dirty old man' rings true in this book. "People come to my door—too many of them really—and knock to tell me Notes of a Dirty Old Man turns them on. A bum off the road brings in a gypsy and his wife and we talk . . . . drink half the night. A long distance operator from Newburgh, N.Y. sends me money. She wants me...

発売日: 2013-06-15 ジャンル:小説／文学 ¥1,900

This fascinating book contains the remarkable account of Sylvan Muldoor's out of body experience, scientifically edited by one of the world's foremost psychic researchers, Dr. Carrington. Including both the detailed account of Muldoor's experiences and instructions on the technique of projecting the astral body, this book is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in the subject.

発売日: 2013-04-18 ジャンル:小説／文学 ¥1,200

*FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED* Whether it was Churchill rousing the British to take up arms or the dream of Martin Luther King, Fidel Castro inspiring the Cuban revolution or Barack Obama on Selma and the meaning of America, speeches have profoundly influenced the way we see ourselves and society. Gathered here are some of the most extraordinary and memorable speeches of the last century. Some are well known, others less so, but all helped form the world we now inhabit.

発売日: 2012-05-03 ジャンル:小説／文学 ¥1,400

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings is a collection that displays the full force of Edgar Allen Poe's mastery of both Gothic horror and the short story form. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by David Galloway. This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates his intense interest in aesthetic issues, and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. 'The Fall of ...

発売日: 2003-03-27 ジャンル:小説／文学 ¥650