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Three Japanese Short Stories
  • Published: 26 February 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241339756
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 64

Three Japanese Short Stories

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26 Feb 2018
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Fifty new books at £1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

'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
  • Published: 26 February 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241339756
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 64
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About the author

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Ryunosuke Akutagawa was a short-story writer, poet and essayist, and one of the first Japanese modernists translated into English. He was born in Tokyo in 1892, and began writing for student publications at the age of ten. He graduated from Tokyo University with an English Literature degree and worked as a teacher before becoming a full-time writer in 1919. His mother had suffered a mental breakdown shortly after his birth and he was plagued by fear of inherited insanity all his life. He killed himself in 1927.
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