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The Tale of Genji
The first complete new translation for 25 years of the acknowledged masterpiece of Japanese literature. Lady Murasaki's great 11th century novel is a beautifully crafted story of …
From the Bamboo-View Pavilion: Takemuki-Ga-KI
The Ise Stories
Ise monogatari is one of classical Japan's most important texts. It influenced other literary court romances like The Tale of Genji and inspired artists, playwrights, and poets …
The Castelvecchio Family
Louis Bonaparte, a younger brother of Napoleon, had an illegitimate son named Fran ois Louis de Castelvecchio. On the basis of letters and other documents this book gives an …
The Algerine Captive: The Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill
The Algerine Captive tells the story of the upbringing, early career, and later enslavement of fictional Boston native, narrator Updike Underhill. The first volume chronicles …
The Algerine Captive: or, The Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill
A predecessor of both the nativist humor of Mark Twain and the exotic adventure stories of Washington Irving, Herman Melville, and Richard Dana, Royall Tyler's The Algerine Captive …
The Disaster of the Third Princess
The Contrast
Spanish Art, an Introductory Review of Architecture, Painting, Sculpture, Textiles, Ceramics, Woodwork, Metalwork
From Baishoron to Nantaiheiki
Iwashimizu Hachiman in War and Cult
Here are three works from 14th c. Japan. MEITOKUKI narrates a failed rebellion against the shogun in 1391. OEIKI narrates another failed rebellion in 1399. The third work is …
Flowers of Grass
Outside Tokyo, a tuberculosis sanatorium in the village of K has a six-bed ward that the narrator, an aspiring poet, shares with a student of linguistics and budding writer named …