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''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.

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Three Japanese Short Stories Akutagawa and Others

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    A Paperback / softback by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Kafu Nagai, Chiyo Uno

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 22 February 2018
      ISBN-13 9780241339749
      978-0241339749
      ISBN-10 024133974X
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      Fiction Anthologies & Short Stories

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''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.

      Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York''s underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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