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  • The Story of a Single Woman

    by CHIYO UNO ...
    Translated by Rebecca Copeland ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    **A piercingly beautiful and candid novel of love, sex and independence in 1920s Japan by a trailblazing Japanese writer“Remarkable . . . [Chiyo] has a hard, unerring eye for the tender detail” — Financial Times**She left her home, just a girl, determined to live alone. But wasn’t this the very life her late father had most fervently forbidden?As an older woman, Kazue looks back on her tumultuous ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • 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

    $1.99 CAD

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    by Penguin Books Ltd ...
    Series series Penguin Modern
    ' "Another hour gone. But I'm not afraid. There's only one thing I regret: that I've lived for so many years without knowing where human happiness is to be found" 'In these stories, four writers - all exiles from revolutionary Russia - explore four deaths in a world in which old certainties have dissolved forever.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • The Life of a Stupid Man

    by Ryunosuke Akutagawa ...
    Translated by Jay Rubin ...
    Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
    'What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.'Autobiographical stories from one of Japan's masters of modernist story-telling.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They ... Read more

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  • A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees

    Translated by Meredith McKinney ...
    by Kenko ...
    Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
    'It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met...'Moonlight, sake, spring blossom, idle moments, a woman's hair - these exquisite reflections on life's fleeting pleasures by a thirteenth-century Japanese monk are delicately attuned to nature and the senses.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 ... Read more

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  • Lips too Chilled

    by Matsuo Basho ...
    Translated by Lucien Stryk ...
    Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
    'Nothing more lonely -'A selection of Basho's most magical haikuIntroducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • Why I Am so Clever

    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    Translated by R. J. Hollingdale ...
    Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
    'Why do I know a few more things? Why am I so clever altogether?'Self-celebrating and self-mocking autobiographical writings from Ecce Homo, the last work iconoclastic German philosopher Nietzsche wrote before his descent into madness.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • Aphorisms on Love and Hate

    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
    'We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our earliest youth ... Likewise, hatred must be learned and nurtured, if one wishes to become a proficient hater'This volume contains a selection of Nietzsche's brilliant and challenging aphorisms, examining the pleasures of revenge, the falsity of pity, and the incompatibility of marriage with the philosophical life.Introducing Little Black ... Read more

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  • The Meek One

    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ...
    Translated by Ronald Meyer ...
    Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
    'I could see that she was still terribly afraid, but I didn't soften anything; instead, seeing that she was afraid I deliberately intensified it.'Based on a St Petersburg news report, Dostoyevsky's searing tale of a man who drives his wife to suicide. ... Read more

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  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Translated by Anthony Briggs ...
    Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
    'It is only a bruise'A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident...One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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  • Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

    by Oscar Wilde ...
    Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
    'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself'Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and ... Read more

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  • The Fall of Icarus

    by Ovid ...
    Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
    'Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards...'Ovid tells the tales of Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, the Calydonian Boar-Hunt, and many other famous myths.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world ... Read more

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