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  • To the Monster I Love, Vol. 1 (novel)

    by ryunosuke, Gesoking ...
    Translated by Laura Sitzer ...
    Series Book 1 - To the Monster I Love
    Bardium is a tightly guarded city where magic, miracles, and illusions aren’t allowed. Here, in a dimly lit room, a young boy named Norman is being interrogated. He’s asked about Unlaw—supernatural monsters who gain abilities from unstable emotion. Four of these beings, all beautiful women, are now hunting each other down, and Norman must sate their desires while dealing with other oddities ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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

    by ryunosuke, Gesoking ...
    Translated by Laura Sitzer ...
    Series Book 2 - To the Monster I Love
    EVERYBODY, PARTNER UP!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, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • To the Monster I Love, Vol. 3 (novel)

    by ryunosuke, Gesoking ...
    Translated by Laura Sitzer ...
    Series Book 3 - To the Monster I Love
    Two infamous Unlaw have escaped the capital, and the Elementary Detective Agency are dispatched to recapture them. Norman leads the group to a seedy casino for what should be an easy mission…only to be confronted by enemies from the not-so-distant past. To make matters worse, these villains appear to be a lot stronger than they once were. And as the battle heats up, the line between ‘human’ and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

    by Ryunosuke Akutagawa ...
    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

    $11.39 USD

  • In a Grove

    by Ryunosuke Akutagawa ...
    "In a Grove" is an early modernist short story consisting of seven varying accounts of the murder of a samurai, Kanazawa no Takehiro, whose corpse has been found in a bamboo forest near Kyoto. Each section simultaneously clarifies and obfuscates what the reader knows about the murder, eventually creating a complex and contradictory vision of events that brings into question humanity's ability or ... Read more

    $3.95 USD

  • Kappa

    by Ryunosuke Akutagawa ...
    Translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, Allison Markin Powell ...
    Akutagawa’s magical final work is a short novel with a magic spell all its own—poignant, fantastical, wry, melancholic, and wittyThe Kappa is a creature from Japanese folklore known for dragging unwary toddlers to their deaths in rivers: a scaly, child-sized creature, looking something like a frog, but with a sharp, pointed beak and an oval-shaped saucer on top of its head, which hardens with age ... Read more

    $10.29 USD

  • Three Japanese Short Stories

    by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Kafu Nagai, Chiyo Uno ...
    Series series Penguin Modern
    '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 ... Read more

    $1.33 USD

  • Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Ryunosuke Akutagawa ...
    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

    $7.99 USD

  • The Spider's Thread

    by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Translated by Roger Pulvers ...
    Illustrated by Lucy Pulvers ...
    The Spiders Thread is Akutagawas most well-known short story. It is an exquisite allegory about good, evil and redemption. Kandata, the wicked criminal sent to Hell for his sins, is given a chance to save himself, thanks to the Buddha remembering that he had once spared the life of a little spider. But Kandatas fate is sealed for all eternity when he tries to save himself at the expense of others. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Rashomon and Other Stories

    by Ryunosuke Akutagawa ...
    Writing at the beginning of the twentieth century, Ryunosuke Akutagawa created disturbing stories out of Japan's cultural upheaval. Rashomon tells the chilling story of the killing of a samurai through the testimony of witnesses, including the spirit of the murdered man. The fable-like Yam Gruel is an account of desire and humiliation, but one in which the reader's sympathy is thoroughly unsettled ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • 3 Stories Mixing Honour and Death

    by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Alexander Pushkin, Ambrose Bierce ...
    There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says ... Read more

    $3.70 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Practice of Not Thinking

    A Guide to Mindful Living

    by Ryunosuke Koike ...
    Narrated by Susan Momoko Hingley ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 24 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.What if we could learn to look instead of see, listen instead of hear, feel instead of touch? Former monk and bestselling author Ryunosuke Koike shows how, by incorporating simple Zen practices into our daily lives, we can reconnect with our five senses and live in a more peaceful, positive way.When we focus on our senses and learn to re-train our brains and our bodies, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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