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I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him....

Ramayana must rank as one of the most loved and revered books of all time. A part of India's ancient Vedas, it is a beautiful story of romance and adventure....

Step into the world of ancient Chinese strategy with The Art of War for Language Learners—a unique bilingual Chinese-English audiobook that blends timeless wisdom with modern Mandarin Chinese language learning.

This is the definitive, fascinating account of this unforgettable tale of a band of samurai who defied the Emperor to avenge the disgrace and death of their master....

Taken literally, stories, symbols and rituals of Hindu mythology have much to say about gender relationships. Taken symbolically, they reveal many more things....

Ram Rajya. The Perfect Land. But perfection has a price. He paid that price....

Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids recounts the exploits of 15 teenage reformatory boys evacuated to a remote mountain village in wartime....

India, 3400 BCE. The ancient kingdom of Mithila is divided by corruption, resentment, and poverty. An abandoned baby is found in a field protected by a vulture from a pack of wolves....

Here's the deal: We created this Japanese-speaking crash course dedicated to making you conversational in 30 days or less – without spending months on a random language app that you'd mentally force yourself to use.

陰翳礼讃は昭和８年に執筆された随筆で、日本の生活が西洋化し日本の美が失われていくことが書かれている。

今日、日本風の家屋を建てて住もうとすると、電気やガス、水道等が日本座敷と調和するよう取り付けに苦心を払うことになる。これは、家を建てたことがなくても、料理屋旅館等の座敷を見てみれば気がつくことである。

In this first of a planned five-volume set, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei....

Locked in the stories, symbols and rituals of Vishnu is the wisdom of the ancestors, transmitted over hundreds of years....

The Three Kingdoms is one of the Chinese Noble Classics....

This book offers a complete translation of the Majjhima Nikāya, or Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, one of the major collections of texts in the Pāli Canon, the authorised scriptures of Theravada Buddhism....

油田開発を最後の仕事と思い定めた壹岐は、社内の反対を押し切り、イランのサルベスタン鉱区に賭けた。政官界からの逆風をかわし見事採掘権の落札に成功するが、灼熱の大地からは一向に原油の噴き出す兆しはなかった。

May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She's been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda.

In The Gateless Gate, one of modern Zen Buddhism’s uniquely influential masters offers classic commentaries on the Mumonkan, one of Zen’s greatest collections of teaching stories.

The Water Margin is one of the most popular classics of early Chinese literature. It tells the vigorous story of 108 characters who, falling foul of the established state authorities, are forced to become outlaws....

In this canto, we first meet Prahlad, a prince in the race of Asuras, fierce enemies of the gods. An exalted saint, he excites the ire of his demonic father Hiranyakshipu by his devotion to Krishna....

Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu wrote The Tale of Genji in the 11th century to entertain the other women in the court. It follows the romantic exploits of the title character, an emperor’s son, as he navigates life in and out of aristocratic society....

Una maravillosa muestra del talento narrativo de Murakami que nos abre las puertas a otras realidades y nos lleva de la mano a mundos fantásticos. Un hombre...

Improve your Chinese skills and grow your vocabulary with these 10 entertaining Chinese short stories....

From victims to victims to victors, this collection of stories contains intricate details of 13 women who went on to leave their permanent mark on the face of the Mumbai Mafiosi....

210 BC, China. The most powerful emperor China has ever known is on the brink of death. In desperation, he sends his most gifted alchemist and sorcerer on a quest for the mythical elixir of life. His fleet never returned....

Looking to step up your Japanese before that big trip next year? Are you getting prepared for an interview with a recruiter in Tokyo? Maybe you’re tired of reading the subtitles on the latest anime! No language is easy to learn without practicing....

Le jour où sa femme disparaît inexplicablement, la vie de Toru Okada bascule – et emporte avec elle les repères du monde. C'est dans une réalité qui s'enfuit sous d'excentriques mirages que le jeune homme s'éveille un matin. Un théâtre d'ombres débutant par de mystérieux coups de téléphone, et où se croisent peu à peu des êtres déroutants, inclassables, aux confins d'un univers guidé par le chant d'un oiseau à ressort.

歴戦の同志を失いながらも、梁山泊軍は、童貫軍と全軍あげてのぶつかり合いを続けている。乱戦の中、戦場の中央に陣取る郭盛軍は少しずつ前進を始めた。童貫は『幻』の旗に向かい、岳飛は楊令軍を止めるべく疾駆する。

怖い作品です。内容が怖いのではありません。この作品の発行は昭和41年３月。山川方夫はこの本が発行される一カ月前の二月に交通事故で亡くなりました。婚約者との結納を済ませ、結婚式を三か月後に控えた時期でもありました。読み進めるにしたがって真綿で首を絞められるように息苦しくなってきます。怖いです。

武蔵野の自然と人間の静かな交感を描いた随筆風小説として、今も昔も変わらぬ人気を誇っています。武蔵野の風景に宿る詩情と哲理が心を打ちます。しばし、都会の喧騒を離れ、静寂の美を味わいたい人に最適の作品です。きっと心が癒されます。

太宰治の作品を知るうえで非常に重要な自伝的小説です。昭和８年、太宰治24歳の時の作品で、中学時代までを回顧して書かれています。第一回芥川賞候補作となった太宰初の創作集「晩年」に掲載されました。