A Study Guide For Yasunari Kawabata S Grasshopper And The Bell Cricket

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410347282

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A Study Guide for Yasunari Kawabata's "Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Yasunari Kawabata's "Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2300 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UOM:39015078261834

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Book Review Digest by Anonim Pdf

Excerpts from and citations to reviews of more than 8,000 books each year, drawn from coverage of 109 publications. Book Review Digest provides citations to and excerpts of reviews of current juvenile and adult fiction and nonfiction in the English language. Reviews of the following types of books are excluded: government publications, textbooks, and technical books in the sciences and law. Reviews of books on science for the general reader, however, are included. The reviews originate in a group of selected periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and general science published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. - Publisher.

Author : Yasunari Kawabata
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374530495

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Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata Pdf

Collection of short stories written over the entire span of Kawabata's career. These stories, he felt, represented the essence of his art and reflect his abiding interest in the miniature, the wisp of plot reduced to the essential. --Adapted from publisher description.

Author : Yasunari Kawabata
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307833662

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Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata Pdf

Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Thousand Cranes is a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead. While attending a traditional tea ceremony in the aftermath of his parents’ deaths, Kikuji encounters his father’s former mistress, Mrs. Ota. At first Kikuji is appalled by her indelicate nature, but it is not long before he succumbs to passion—a passion with tragic and unforeseen consequences, not just for the two lovers, but also for Mrs. Ota’s daughter, to whom Kikuji’s attachments soon extend. Death, jealousy, and attraction convene around the delicate art of the tea ceremony, where every gesture is imbued with profound meaning.

Author : Yasunari Kawabata
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307833631

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Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata Pdf

The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko, a young woman with whom he had a terrible affair many years before, and discovers that she is now a painter, living with a younger woman as her lover. Otoko has continued to love Oki and has never forgotten him, but his return unsettles not only her but also her young lover. This is a work of strange beauty, with a tender touch of nostalgia and a heartbreaking sensitivity to those things lost forever.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : English philology
ISBN : UOM:39015069092107

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English Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stuart Dybek
Publisher : Picador
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466806375

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The Coast of Chicago by Stuart Dybek Pdf

The stolid landscape of Chicago suddenly turns dreamlike and otherworldly in Stuart Dybek's classic story collection. A child's collection of bottle caps becomes the tombstones of a graveyard. A lowly rightfielder's inexplicable death turns him into a martyr to baseball. Strains of Chopin floating down the tenement airshaft are transformed into a mysterious anthem of loss. Combining homely detail and heartbreakingly familiar voices with grand leaps of imagination, The Coast of Chicago is a masterpiece from one of America's most highly regarded writers.

Author : James Daley
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486114798

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The World's Greatest Short Stories by James Daley Pdf

Ranging from the 19th to the 20th centuries, this wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable anthology includes Tolstoy, Kipling, Chekhov, Joyce, Kafka, Pirandello, Mann, Updike, Borges, and other major writers of world literature.

Author : Paul Brians,Mary Gallwey,Azfar Hussain,Richard Law
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 0155674250

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Reading about the World by Paul Brians,Mary Gallwey,Azfar Hussain,Richard Law Pdf

This anthology consists of short selections sharply focused on major topics of interest to beginning students of World Civilizations. It combines traditional historical sources with literary and philosophical selections using annotated source readings. This text's mix of poetry, drama, philosophy, and other literary and historical sources offers readers an in-depth look at many aspects of Western Civilization before 1500.

Author : Prakash Book Depot
Publisher : Fingerprint! Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9388810546

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100 World's Greatest Short Stories by Prakash Book Depot Pdf

The short story is one of the finest forms of writing. As short as a paragraph at times, or as lengthy as a novel, short stories are widely read and immensely lauded. Some of the most exceptional writers have dabbled in this form penning beautiful, unforgettable stories. In this carefully-crafted selection, we bring to you some of the greatest writers from around the world-- the iconic storytellers from America, such as Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf, the legendary Grimm brothers from Germany, to the lyrical Rabindranath Tagore from India, and the witty H H Munro from Britain. All these and many more remarkable people come together in this edition . . . and all have stories to tell. An anthology beginning with Aesop's fables-- perhaps the first stories we come across-- and ending with Virginia Woolf's gothic, thrilling ' The Haunted House', 100 World's Greatest Short Stories brings together stories short and sweet, descriptive and lengthy, and stories that can do anything-- from telling a tale to hiding its narrator, from portraying the reality to diving into pure imagination-- and are a must-read for every fiction lover."

Author : Peter Matthiessen
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780834828797

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Nine-Headed Dragon River by Peter Matthiessen Pdf

In August 1968, naturalist-explorer Peter Matthiessen returned from Africa to his home in Sagaponack, Long Island, to find three Zen masters in his driveway—guests of his wife, a new student of Zen. Thirteen years later, Matthiessen was ordained a Buddhist monk. Written in the same format as his best-selling The Snow Leopard, Nine-Headed Dragon River reveals Matthiessen's most daring adventure of all: the quest for his spiritual roots.

Author : Yasunari Kawabata
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781582439082

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The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata Pdf

A young woman in historic Kyoto grapples with secrets from her past in this lyrical work of Japanese literature from a Nobel Prize–winning author. The Old Capital is one of the three novels cited specifically by the Nobel Committee when they awarded Yasunari Kawabata the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. With the ethereal tone and aesthetic styling characteristic of Kawabata's prose, The Old Capital tells the story of Chieko, the adopted daughter of a Kyoto kimono designer, Takichiro, and his wife, Shige. Set in the traditional city of Kyoto, Japan, this deeply poetic story revolves around Chieko who becomes bewildered and troubled as she discovers the true facets of her past. With the harmony and time–honored customs of a Japanese backdrop, the story becomes poignant as Chieko's longing and confusion develops.

Author : Yasunari Kawabata
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307833655

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The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata Pdf

From the Nobel Prize-winning writer and acclaimed author of Snow Country comes a beautiful rendering of the predicament of old age—about an elderly Tokyo businessman who must face the failures of his memory and the sudden upsurges of passion that illuminate the end of a life. “A rich, complicated novel.... Of all modern Japanese fiction, Kawabata’s is the closest to poetry.” —The New York Times Book Review By day Ogata Shingo, an elderly Tokyo businessman, is troubled by small failures of memory. At night he associates the distant rumble he hears from the nearby mountain with the sounds of death. In between are the complex relationships that were once the foundations of Shingo’s life: his trying wife; his philandering son; and his beautiful daughter-in-law, who inspires in him both pity and the stirrings of desire. Out of this translucent web of attachments, Kawabata has crafted a novel that is a powerful, serenely observed meditation on the relentless march of time. Translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker

Author : George Douglas Brown
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781775454502

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The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown Pdf

Immerse yourself in a painstakingly recreated depiction of Scottish rural life at the turn of the twentieth century. Regarded as a groundbreaking literary work upon its publication, The House With the Green Shutters takes an unflinching look at the growing conflict between socioeconomic classes during the period, rather than idealizing rustic living, as many writers of the era chose to do.

Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Creative Company
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0871919621

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The Three Questions by graf Leo Tolstoy Pdf

A king visits a hermit to gain answers to three important questions.