Tokyo, Japan: Tuttle Publishing. Japanese literary history usually classifies Koda Rohan as an idealist writer, and the three stories included in this anthology belong to this genre. The Five-Storied Pagoda, one of Koda's best-known works, is the moving account of a misunderstood carpenter who has been inspired to undertake the..... More
New York: Bantam Books, 1966. Fourth Printing. Paperback. #N3198. Rare edition. Three short novels. 1) Eugenie de Franval, a story about a man who makes his own daughter his mistress and then proceeds to involve her in a plot to murder her mother. 2) Miss Henrietta Stralson..... More
Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha International Ltd, 1989. First Paperback Edition (Fourth Printing). Paperback. More
New York: North Point Press/Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 1996. First North Point Paperback Edition, Second Printing. Paperback. From a Japan Times review (July 4, 2015): “Palm-of-the-Hand Stories” is a collection of 70 very brief stories by Nobel Prize-winner Yasunari Kawabata that were written between the early 1920s and 1970s. It..... More
Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd, 1981. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. More
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