American stories
| ISBN: | 0231117906, 9780231117906 |
| OCLC Number: | 469616538 |
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| Author: | Nagai Kafu |
| Translator: | Mitsuko Iriye |
| Language: | en |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press, 2000, 2013 |
| Publication Place: | New York |
| Japanese Copyright Year: | 1908 |
| English Publication Date: | 2000 |
| Notes: | Japanese title: Amerika monogatari. Contents: 1. Night Talk in a Cabin 2. A Return Through the Meadow 3. Atop the Hill 4. The Inebriated Beauty 5. Long Hair 6. Spring and Autumn 7. Lodging on a Snowy Night 8. In the Woods 9. Bad Company 10. Old Regrets 11. Rude Awakening 12. Ladies of the Night 13. January First 14. Daybreak 15. Two Days in Chicago 16. The Sea in Summer 17. Midnight at a Bar 18. Fallen Leaves 19. Chronicle of Chinatown 20. Night Stroll 21. A June Night's Dream 22. A Night at Seattle Harbor 23. Night Fog |
| Abstract: | Based on his sojourn from Japan to Washington State, Michigan, and New York City in the early years of the twentieth century, these stories, at last available in English, represent a classic account of turn-of-the-century America by one of the greatest Japanese writers of the modern era. |
| Subjects: | Nagai Kafu, Translations into English |