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And Then by Soseki Natsume
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Tuttle Classics Ser.
"And Then," ranked as one of Soseki Natsume's most insightful and stirring novels, tells the story of Daisuke, a young Japanese man struggling with his personal purpose and identity, as well as the changing social landscape of Meiji-era Japan. As Japan enters the 20th century, ancient customs give way t ...Show more
Botchan by Natsume Soseki
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Botchan is a modern young man from the Tokyo metropolis, sent to the ultra-traditional Matsuyama district as a Maths teacher after his the death of his parents. Cynical, rebellious and immature, Botchan finds himself facing several tests, from the pupils - prone to playing tricks on their new, naive tea ...Show more
Botchan by Natsume Soseki
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
New in Penguin Japanese Classics- Japan's favourite novel about growing up and finding yourself Introducing Penguin Japanese Classics- a collection of some of Japan's most celebrated and ground-breaking 20th century writers, with covers inspired by Japanese art and design. Taking us from a sun-drenched ...Show more
I Am a Cat: The Manga Edition by Soseki Natsume
$22.99 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels
Japan's beloved literary masterpiece brought to life in manga form! Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirises the foolishness of upper-middle-class Japanese society in early 20th century Tokyo. Written with biting wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a ra ...Show more
I am a Cat - Three Volumes by Soseki, Natsume
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Tuttle Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"A nonchalant string of anecdotes and wisecracks, told by a fellow who doesn't have a name, and has never caught a mouse, and isn't much good for anything except watching human beings in action..." --The New Yorker Written from 1904 through 1906, Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes ...Show more
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Translator Meredith McKinney
"Kokoro", meaning 'heart', is a tantalizing novel about the friendship between a young man and an enigmatic elder whom he calls Sensei. Set in the early twentieth century, when the death of the emperor Meiji gave way to a new era in Japanese politicial and cultural life, the novel enacts the transition ...Show more
Sanshiro by Natsume Soseki
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Natsume Soseki's only coming-of-age novel, Sanshiro depicts the eponymous twenty-three-year-old protagonist as he leaves the sleepy countryside to attend a university in the constantly moving "real world" of Tokyo. Baffled and excited by the traffic, the academics, and-most of all-the women, Sanshiro mu ...Show more
The Gate by Natsume Soseki
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Seemingly cursed with the inability to have children, the couple find themselves having to take responsibility for Sosuke's younger brother Koroku. Oyone's health begins to fail, and news that Oyone's estranged ex-husband Yasui will be visiting nearby finally promotes a sense of crisis in Sosuke and for ...Show more
The Gate by Natsume Soseki
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics
A humble clerk and his loving wife scrape out a quiet existence on the margins of late-Meiji Tokyo. Resigned, following years of exile and misfortune, to the bitter consequences of having married without their families' consent, and unable to have children of their own, Sosuke and Oyone find the delicat ...Show more