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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world''s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.

Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.

Akutagawa was one of the towering figures of modern Japanese literature, and is considered the father of the Japanese short story. This paradigmatic selection, which includes the stories that inspired Akira Kurosawa''s 1950 film Rashomon, showcases the terrible beauty, cynicism, sublime pain and absurd humour of his writing.

''One never tires of reading and re-reading his best works. The elegantly s

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One never tires of reading and re-reading his best works. The elegantly spare style has a truly spine-tingling brilliance -- Haruki Murakami
Extravagance and horror are in his work, but never in the style, which is always crystal-clear -- Jorge Luis Borges

Hell Screen Ryunosuke Akutagawa Little Clothbound

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    A Hardback by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Jay Rubin

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 25 August 2022
      ISBN-13 9780241573693
      978-0241573693
      ISBN-10 0241573696
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      Fiction Anthologies & Short Stories

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world''s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.

      Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.

      Akutagawa was one of the towering figures of modern Japanese literature, and is considered the father of the Japanese short story. This paradigmatic selection, which includes the stories that inspired Akira Kurosawa''s 1950 film Rashomon, showcases the terrible beauty, cynicism, sublime pain and absurd humour of his writing.

      ''One never tires of reading and re-reading his best works. The elegantly s

      Trade Review
      One never tires of reading and re-reading his best works. The elegantly spare style has a truly spine-tingling brilliance -- Haruki Murakami
      Extravagance and horror are in his work, but never in the style, which is always crystal-clear -- Jorge Luis Borges

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