The beautiful and the grotesque
| ISBN: | 9780871401922, 0871401924 |
| OCLC Number: | 449867293 |
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| Author: | Ryunosuke Akutagawa |
| Translator: | Takashi Kojima, John McVittie |
| Editor: | John McVittie, Arthur Pell |
| Language: | en |
| Publisher: | Liveright Pub. Corp. |
| Publication Place: | New York |
| English Publication Date: | 2010 |
| Notes: | Contents: A sprig of wild orange (Introduction), The robbers (Chuto), The dog, Shiro, The handkerchief (Hankachi), The dolls (Hina), Gratitude (Ho'onki), The faith of Wei Sheng (Bisei no shin), The lady, Roku-No-Miya (Rokunomiya no himegime), The kappa, Saig takamori, The greeting (Ojigi), Withered fields (Kareno-sho), Absorbed in letters (Gesaku zanmai), The garden (Niwa), The badger (Mujina), Heresy (Jashumon), A woman's body. Illustrations by Yuko Shimizu. |
| Abstract: | Short stories. |
| Subjects: | Japan, Fiction Japan, Social life and customs, Fiction Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Translations into English |