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  • The Practice of Not Thinking

    A Guide to Mindful Living

    **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

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  • The Lifetime Reset Machine Vol.1: First Love - 人生重來時光機 Vol.1:初戀

    Series Book 1 - The Lifetime Reset Machine - 人生重來時光機
    The latest globally anticipated show—The Lifetime Reset Machine—has officially launched! If you could live your life over again, what would you change the most?This episode's participant faces his greatest regret: giving up on his first love. When he returns to the past to do it all over again, what will his ending be?The Lifetime Reset Machine, activate!全球關注的最新節目——人生重來時光機,正式開播!如果人生可以重來,你最想改變什麼 ... Read more

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  • The Lifetime Reset Machine Vol.2: Dreams - 人生重來時光機 Vol.2:夢想

    Series Book 2 - The Lifetime Reset Machine - 人生重來時光機
    The latest globally anticipated show—The Lifetime Reset Machine—has arrived at its highly anticipated second episode. If you could live your life over again, what would you change the most?This episode's participant faces his greatest regret: giving up on his dream because he was afraid of failure and being judged by those around him. When he returns to the past to do it all over again, what will ... Read more

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  • Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

    Translated by Jay Rubin ...
    Ryünosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) 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 ‘In a Bamboo Grove’ inspired Kurosawa’s magnificent film and depict a past in which morality is turned upside down, while tales such as ‘The Nose’, ‘O-Gin’ and ‘Loyalty’ paint a rich and imaginative ... Read more

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  • The Essential Akutagawa

    Twenty-Two Short Stories by Japan's Master Storyteller

    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

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  • Rashōmon

    "Rashōmon" (羅生門) is a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa based on tales from the Konjaku Monogatarishū.The story was first published in 1915 in Teikoku Bungaku. Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon (1950) is in fact based primarily on another of Akutagawa's short stories, "In a Grove"; only the film's title and some of the material for the frame scenes, such as the theft of a kimono and the discussion ... Read more

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  • 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature - volume 2

    This 2nd volume of contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names:Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a BoatJoyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJoyce, James: UlyssesKingsley, Charles: The Water-BabiesKipling, Rudyard: KimLa Fayette, Madame de: The Princess of ClèvesLaclos, Pierre Choderlos de: Dangerous LiaisonsLawrence, D. H.: Sons and LoversLawrence, ... Read more

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  • Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    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

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  • Rashomon and Other Stories

    " Rashomon and Other Stories" has had a profound impact on both Japanese and international literature. The stories "Rashomon" and "In a Bamboo Grove" were famously adapted into the 1950 film Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa, which brought Akutagawa's work to a global audience and won numerous awards, including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Akutagawa's exploration of the human condition, ... Read more

    $1.90 USD

  • History Fantasia: Han Xin Edition - 歷史幻想曲:韓信篇

    Series Book 1 - History Fantasia - 歷史幻想曲
    Han Xin is universally recognized in history as a military genius, yet his tragic end remains a shared historical regret.When genius is displaced, tragedy ensues; but what wondrous developments await when placed in the right position?The historical fantasia officially begins now!韓信是歷史公認的軍事天才,也是歷史共同遺憾的悲劇結局。當天才錯位會產生悲劇,去到對的位置又會有什麼奇妙發展?歷史幻想曲,正式開始! ... Read more

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  • In a Grove

    "In a Grove" (藪の中 Yabu no Naka) is a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa; it first appeared in the January 1922 edition of the Japanese literature monthly Shinchō. Akira Kurosawa used this story as the basis for the plot of his award-winning movie Rashōmon."In a Grove" is an early modernist short story, as well as a blending of the modernist search for identity with themes from historic Japanese ... Read more

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