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  • Tales Grotesque and Curious

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. Akutagawa Ryunosuke emerges as a master of precision and irony, a Japanese writer whose brief life was devoted to literature and whose stories transformed historical and folkloric material into modern psychological drama. Admired by contemporaries such as Natsume Soseki, he became famous for tales like "Rashōmon" ... Read more

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  • The Practice of Not Thinking

    A Guide to Mindful Living

    **THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Offers a variety of Buddhist techniques to help us feel calmer every day . . . Nothing has changed . . . and everything has changed . . . I feel calmer and more centred' Sunday Times**What if we could learn to look instead of see, listen instead of hear, feel instead of touch? Former monk Ryunosuke Koike shows how, by incorporating simple Zen practices into our daily ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Rashōmon

    "Rashōmon" (羅生門) is a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa based on tales from the Konjaku Monogatarishū.The story was first published in 1915 in Teikoku Bungaku. Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon (1950) is in fact based primarily on another of Akutagawa's short stories, "In a Grove"; only the film's title and some of the material for the frame scenes, such as the theft of a kimono and the discussion ... Read more

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  • Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

    Translated by Jay Rubin ...
    Ryünosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan’s foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. ‘Rashömon’ and ‘In a Bamboo Grove’ inspired Kurosawa’s magnificent film and depict a past in which morality is turned upside down, while tales such as ‘The Nose’, ‘O-Gin’ and ‘Loyalty’ paint a rich and imaginative ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • To the Monster I Love, Vol. 2 (novel)

    Translated by Laura Sitzer ...
    Series Book 2 - To the Monster I Love
    A month after the Jim Adamworth incident, Norman and his four Unlaw settle into their new lives at the Elementary Detective Agency. However, just because life at home is peaceful doesn’t mean the city of Bardium has gotten any less chaotic. Lonsday and Eltiel team up to take down the Mad Bomber, and along the way, discover the existence of anti-Unlaw weapons. Meanwhile, Clareth and Shizuku head to ... Read more

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  • The Lifetime Reset Machine Vol.6: A Parent's Love - 人生重來時光機 Vol.6:對孩子的愛

    Series Book 6 - The Lifetime Reset Machine - 人生重來時光機
    The latest globally anticipated show—The Lifetime Reset Machine—remains a massive hit. If you could live your life over again, what would you change the most?This episode's participant faces her greatest regret: a parent's love, where a lack of understanding caused irreversible regrets. When she returns to the past to do it all over again, what will her ending be this time? Can she find the answer ... Read more

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  • The Lifetime Reset Machine Vol.5: Reluctance to Part - 人生重來時光機 Vol.5:捨不得

    Series Book 5 - The Lifetime Reset Machine - 人生重來時光機
    The latest globally anticipated show—The Lifetime Reset Machine—remains at the peak of its massive popularity. If you could live your life over again, what would you change the most?This episode's participant faces her greatest regret: being reluctant to spend money, feeling that she lost even more because of it. When she returns to the past to do it all over again, what will her ending be this ... Read more

    $1.02 USD

  • The Essential Akutagawa

    Twenty-Two Short Stories by Japan's Master Storyteller

    Translated by Richard Medhurst ...
    "Akutagawa displays an insightful and keenly creative intelligence in prose so lucid its sophistication is hardly visible." —Chris Power, The GuardianRyunosuke Akutagawa (1892—1927), often called "the Father of the Japanese short story," wrote more than 150 works during his brief but prolific career. Widely regarded as Japan's master storyteller, he blended modern sensibilities with timeless ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Lifetime Reset Machine Vol.4: Courage - 人生重來時光機 Vol.4:勇氣

    Series Book 4 - The Lifetime Reset Machine - 人生重來時光機
    The latest globally anticipated show—The Lifetime Reset Machine—has already become a daily must-watch for audiences worldwide. If you could live your life over again, what would you change the most?This episode's participant faces her greatest regret: lacking the courage to change. When she returns to the past to do it all over again, what will her ending be this time?The Lifetime Reset Machine, ... Read more

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  • 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature - volume 2

    This 2nd volume of contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names:Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a BoatJoyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJoyce, James: UlyssesKingsley, Charles: The Water-BabiesKipling, Rudyard: KimLa Fayette, Madame de: The Princess of ClèvesLaclos, Pierre Choderlos de: Dangerous LiaisonsLawrence, D. H.: Sons and LoversLawrence, ... Read more

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  • Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    Translated by Jay Rubin ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    For fans of Shōgun: The best stories by the father of the Japanese short story—including the two that inspired Kurosawa's classic samurai film about the subjectivity of truth—featuringan introduction by Haruki MurakamiRyünosuke Akutagawa is one of Japan's foremost stylists—a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. "Rashömon"and ... Read more

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