Book
Darkness in Summer
"This intensely modern novel … provides vivid insights into the alienated condition of a certain type of Japanese whom we may so often glimpse in the streets of Rome or …
Book
Spring Snow
"A classic of Japanese literature" (Chicago Sun-Times) and the first novel in the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, set in 1912 Tokyo, featuring an aspiring lawyer who believes he …
Book
A Quiet Life
A Japanese novelist and his wife move to America, leaving the children behind. It befalls to the eldest daughter to look after a younger sister and a handicapped brother. The …
Book
[No Title]
Book
War and Peace
Presents the classical epic of the Napoleonic Wars and their effects on four Russian families
Book
Penguin Classics Anna Karenina
'One of the greatest love stories in world literature' Vladimir Nabokov The heroine of Tolstoy's epic of love and self-destruction, Anna Karenina has beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son, …
Book
Kokoro
Haunted by tragic secrets, Sensei slowly opens up to his young disciple, confessing indiscretions from his own student days that have left him reeling with guilt.
Book
Kusamakura
A stunning new English translation—the first in more than forty years—of a major novel by the father of modern Japanese fiction Natsume Soseki's Kusamakura—meaning “grass pillow”—follows its nameless young artist-narrator …
Book
The Tale of Genji
The Tale of Genji was written in the eleventh century by Murasaki Shikibu, a lady of the Heian court. It is universally recognized as the greatest masterpiece of Japanese prose …
Book
[No Title]
Book
The Pillow Book of Sei Sh?nagon
One of the great classics of Japanese literature, "The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon" is by far our most detailed source of factual material on life in eleventh-century Japan at …
Book
Kitchen
Relates the experiences of two free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan.
Book
Notes from Underground; the Double
‘It is best to do nothing! The best thing is conscious inertia! So long live the underground!’Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous …
Book
The Woman in the Dunes
The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel. After missing the last bus home following a …
Book
A Book of Five Rings
Translated by V. Harris. Japan's answer to the Harvard MBA...Written over three centuries ago by a Samurai warrior, the book has been hailed as a limitless source of psychological insight …
Book
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
U.S. poet/writer 1809-1849.
Book
Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre: The Best of H. P. Lovecraft
“H.P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.”—Stephen King “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the …
Book
Miyazawa Kenji
Book
The Cape and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto
Portrayal of a community scarred by poverty & racism.
Book
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
A stunning deluxe edition of one of Penguin Classics' most popular translations Ryünosuke Akutagawa is one of Japan's foremost stylists—a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original …
Book
Beauty and Sadness
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko, a young woman with whom he …
Book
Geisha in Rivalry
Geisha in Rivalry, first published as Udekurabe in 1918, has a secure place among Kafu Nagai's masterpieces. Set against the backdrop of Tokyo's Shimbashi geisha district, a company of vivid …
Book
Vita Sexualis
An important record of Japans moral struggles during the cultural upheaval of the Meiji era.
Book
The Makioka Sisters
Four daughters of an old merchant family unknowingly face the end of a gentler way of life in Osaka, Japan in 1938.
Book
Fires on the Plain
Anti-war novel as seen from the point of view of a losing army.
Book
Silence
Translation, from the Japanese, of Chinmoku.
Book
The Great Gatsby
A mysterious American millionaire tries to recapture the sweetheart of his youth, which results in tragedy.
Book
Nineteen Eighty-four
Eternal warfare is the price of bleak prosperity in this satire of totalitarian barbarism.
Book
The Gossamer Years
Kagero Nikki, translated here as The Gossamer Years, belongs to the same period as the celebrated Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikuibu. This remarkably frank autobiographical diary and personal confession …
Book
Siddhartha
The classic novel of a quest for knowledge that has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers—a perennial favorite for graduation gifts. Nominated as one of America’s …
Book
Essays in Idleness
The Buddhist priest Kenko clung to tradition, Buddhism, and the pleasures of solitude, and the themes he treats in his "Essays, " written sometime between 1330 and 1332, are all …