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  • The Practice of Not Thinking

    A Guide to Mindful Living

    by Ryunosuke Koike ...
    **THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Offers a variety of Buddhist techniques to help us feel calmer every day . . . Nothing has changed . . . and everything has changed . . . I feel calmer and more centred' Sunday Times**What if we could learn to look instead of see, listen instead of hear, feel instead of touch? Former monk Ryunosuke Koike shows how, by incorporating simple Zen practices into our daily ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

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    Neglected Authors, The - Volume 1

    Celebrated in their time, forgotten in ours

    by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Grant Allen, Leonid Andreyev, Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev, Gertrude Atherton, Lady Augusta Gregory, Stacy Aumonier, William Austin, William Austin, Richard Harris Barham, Robert Barr0, Charles Baudelaire1, Aphra Behn2, John Davys Beresford3, Helena Blavatsky4, Marjorie Bowen5, Mary Elizabeth Braddon6, Ernest Bramah7, D K Broster8, Rhoda Broughton9, Valery Bryusov0, Thomas Burke1 ...
    Narrated by Eve Karpf2, Mark Rice-Oxley3, David Shaw-Parker4 ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 31 min

    Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Essential Akutagawa

    Twenty-Two Short Stories by Japan's Master Storyteller

    by Ryunosuke Akutagawa ...
    Translated by Richard Medhurst ...
    "Akutagawa displays an insightful and keenly creative intelligence in prose so lucid its sophistication is hardly visible." —Chris Power, The GuardianRyunosuke Akutagawa (1892—1927), often called "the Father of the Japanese short story," wrote more than 150 works during his brief but prolific career. Widely regarded as Japan's master storyteller, he blended modern sensibilities with timeless ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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

    by ryunosuke, Gesoking ...
    Translated by Laura Sitzer ...
    Series series 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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  • 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

    $10.99 USD

  • The Hell Screen and Other Stories

    by Ryunosuke Akutagawa ...
    The Hell Screen and Other Stories is a compelling collection that delves into the darker recesses of human nature, moral ambiguity, and the fragile boundary between art and cruelty. Ryunosuke Akutagawa masterfully blends historical settings, psychological insight, and symbolic imagery to explore the destructive potential of obsession, the corrosive effects of vanity, and the inescapable presence ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Hell Screen

    by Ryunosuke Akutagawa ...
    Translated by Jay Rubin ...
    Series series Little Clothbound Classics
    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 ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Short Fiction

    by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke ...
    Akutagawa Ryūnosuke was a respected author in pre-WWII Japan. He was well-read, and having received a Westernized education, his work blends traditional themes of Japanese culture with Western concepts. This edition collects the handful of English translations in the U.S. public domain of his nearly 200 short stories. The stories deal with a variety of themes and concepts: "The Nose" is a tale ... Read more

    $0.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 30 Mystery & Investigation masterpieces

    by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Hollis Godfrey, Thomas Hardy, William Le Queux, Maurice Leblanc, Gaston Leroux, Catherine Louisa Pirkis, Edgar Allan Poe, Frank R. Stockton, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Carolyn Wells, Fred Merrick White ...
    ️♂️ "The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes." — Sherlock Holmes ️♂️ 30 Mystery & Investigation Masterpieces is a thrilling anthology of the world's finest detective, crime, and suspense fiction—a collection that spans centuries of intrigue, deception, and discovery. From fog-shrouded London alleys to opulent country estates and shadowy criminal underworlds, ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $6.99 USD