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Botchan

Natsume Soseki
Botchan Book PDF

Author : Natsume Soseki
Publisher : Xist Publishing
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681951652

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A Comic Japanese Novel “One may be branded foolishly honest if he takes seriously the apologies others might offer. We should regard all apologies a sham and forgiving also as a sham; then everything would be all right. If one wants to make another apologize from his heart, he has to pound him good and strong until he begs for mercy from his heart” ― Natsume Sōseki, Botchan Botchan by Natsume Sōseki is a classic Japanese coming of age novel about a young man who is sent from Tokyo to the countryside to teach mathematics at a middle school. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it.

Botchan

Natsume Soseki
Botchan Book PDF

Author : Natsume Soseki
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780718194796

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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, naïve teacher; the staff - vain, immoral, and in danger of becoming a bad influence on Botchan; and from his own as-yet-unformed nature, as he finds his place in the world. One of the most popular novels in Japan where it is considered a classic of adolescence, as seminal as The Catcher in the Rye, Botchan is as funny, poignant and memorable as it was when first published, over 100 years ago. In J. Cohn's introduction to his colourful translation, he discusses Botchan's success, the book's clash between Western intellectualism and traditional Japanese values, and the importance of names and nicknames in the novel.

The Times of Botchan

Jirō Taniguchi,Natsuo Sekikawa
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Author : Jirō Taniguchi,Natsuo Sekikawa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : UOM:39015069317611

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The Times of Botchan by Jirō Taniguchi,Natsuo Sekikawa Pdf

Jiro Taniguchi ("The Walking Man", "The Caucasian Elm") marries talent to a solid script by Natsuo Sekikawa to present us with "The Times of Botchan", a fresco of Japanese society towards the end of the Meiji period, when the country was beginning to open up to the West. What in hands of another author could have simply been an illustrated textbook becomes a narrative for adults of great artistic and historic significance. The writer Sōseki Natsume, who suffers from neurosis as a consequence of cultural shock, conceives of what will be his new book, "Botchan", as a response to the challenges of his time. Other famous characters of that time appear along with him in a portrayal of the political, social and cultural life of what was arguably the most important period in the history of Japan.

Soseki Natsume's Botchan: The Manga Edition

Soseki Natsume
Soseki Natsume s Botchan The Manga Edition Book PDF

Author : Soseki Natsume
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-09-17
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781462925094

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"Filled with light, satirical touches." — Donald Keene Reckless but unfailingly honest, Botchan is the youngest son in a middle-class Tokyo family. Following his graduation from college, he takes a job as a math teacher on the island of Shikoku, far from the city. Thrust into this alien small-town environment, Botchan encounters nothing but trouble from his students and fellow teachers. Among his tormentors are the pompous, two-faced vice-principal; his fawning sidekick—the art teacher; the spineless principal; and a pack of brawny, prankster students — all of whom seem out to get him. Mayhem ensues, but in the end Botchan prevails through honesty and dogged determination. A modern classic, Botchan rivals Soseki's famous I Am a Cat in popularity in Japan. This is the funniest of Soseki's novels, a penetrating portrait of a young man's quest to survive the suffocating hypocrisy of everyone around him while remaining true to his beliefs. Recommended for readers ages 14 and up due to explicit language

Leonie Gilmour

Edward Marx
Leonie Gilmour Book PDF

Author : Edward Marx
Publisher : Botchan Books
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781939913012

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Leonie Gilmour by Edward Marx Pdf

The story of Léonie Gilmour (1873-1933)—partner of Japanese writer Yone Noguchi, mother of artist Isamu Noguchi and dancer Ailes Gilmour—a woman who chose a unique path to achieving her personal and professional goals, rising above poverty, racism and an ill-fated marriage to take up the challenge of raising two mixed-race children alone in distant Japan. Bringing together extensive research and lively storytelling, Leonie Gilmour: When East Weds West is the first complete portrait of the unique, pioneering American educator, editor and writer whose story inspired Hisako Matsui's acclaimed film Leonie, starring Emily Mortimer and Shido Nakamura. Gilmour's fascinating tale is told here through her own writings and those of her associates, including rare and unpublished stories and intimate correspondence, along with a detailed biographical account by Edward Marx.

Submergence

J M Ledgard
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Author : J M Ledgard
Publisher : Random House
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446496831

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In a room with no windows on the eastern coast of Africa, an Englishman, James More, is held captive by jihadist fighters. Thousands of miles away on the Greenland Sea, Danielle Flinders prepares to dive in a submersive to the ocean floor. In their confines they are drawn back to the Christmas of the previous year, where a chance encounter on a beach in France led to an intense and enduring romance...

坊っちゃん

増山和恵,夏目漱石
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Author : 増山和恵,夏目漱石
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 4843335266

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坊っちゃん by 増山和恵,夏目漱石 Pdf

マンガを読みながら自然に日本語が学べる!英語圏の人たちが日本語と日本の名作を同時に学べる最良のテキスト。

Soseki Natsume's I Am A Cat: The Manga Edition

Soseki Natsume
Soseki Natsume s I Am A Cat The Manga Edition Book PDF

Author : Soseki Natsume
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781462922390

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Soseki Natsume's I Am A Cat: The Manga Edition by Soseki Natsume Pdf

Japan's beloved literary masterpiece brought to life in manga form! Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes 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 rather cynical stray kitten. He finds his way into the home of an English teacher, where his running commentary on the follies and foibles of the people around him has been making readers laugh for more than a century. This is the very first manga edition in English of this classic piece of Japanese literature. The story lends itself well to a graphic novel format, allowing readers to pick up on the more subtle cues of the expressive cat, while also being immersed in the world of his perceptive narration. It is true to classic manga form, and is read back to front. Beautifully illustrated by Japanese artist Chiroru Kobato, this edition provides a visual, entertaining look at a unique period in Japan's history--filled with cultural and societal changes, rapid modernization and a feeling of limitless possibility--through the eyes of an unlikely narrator.

The Gate

Natsume Soseki
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Author : Natsume Soseki
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590176009

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An NYRB Calssics Original A humble clerk and his loving wife scrape out a quiet existence on the margins of 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, Sōsuke and Oyone find the delicate equilibrium of their household upset by a new obligation to meet the educational expenses of Sōsuke’s brash younger brother. While an unlikely new friendship appears to offer a way out of this bind, it also soon threatens to dredge up a past that could once again force them to flee the capital. Desperate and torn, Sōsuke finally resolves to travel to a remote Zen mountain monastery to see if perhaps there, through meditation, he can find a way out of his predicament. This moving and deceptively simple story, a melancholy tale shot through with glimmers of joy, beauty, and gentle wit, is an understated masterpiece by one of Japan’s greatest writers. At the end of his life, Natsume Sōseki declared The Gate, originally published in 1910, to be his favorite among all his novels. This new translation captures the oblique grace of the original while correcting numerous errors and omissions that marred the first English version.

Later Essays

Yoné Noguchi
Later Essays Book PDF

Author : Yoné Noguchi
Publisher : Botchan Books
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780615765433

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Later Essays by Yoné Noguchi Pdf

Yone Noguchi's delightful, groundbreaking essays of the 1920s and 1930s, previously available only in hard-to-obtain periodicals, are collected here for the first time in this Noguchi Project Edition. The 22 essays range across Japanese poetry, No drama, art, autobiography, travel, and international relations. The essays are edited and introduced by Edward Marx.

Three Cornered World

Natsume Suseki
Three Cornered World Book PDF

Author : Natsume Suseki
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1988-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0895267683

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Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud

Martin Gayford
Man with a Blue Scarf On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud Book PDF

Author : Martin Gayford
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500770795

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Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud by Martin Gayford Pdf

“An extraordinary record of a great artist in his studio, it also describes what it feels like to be transformed into a work of art.” —ARTnews Lucian Freud (1922-2011), widely regarded as the greatest figurative painter of our time, spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford. The daily narrative of their encounters takes the reader into that most private place, the artist’s studio, and to the heart of the working methods of this modern master—both technical and subtly psychological. From this emerges an understanding of what a portrait is, but something else is also created: a portrait, in words, of Freud himself. This is not a biography, but a series of close-ups: the artist at work and in conversation at restaurants, in taxis, and in his studio. It takes one into the company of the painter for whom Picasso, Giacometti, and Francis Bacon were friends and contemporaries, as were writers such as George Orwell and W. H. Auden. The book is illustrated with many of Lucian Freud’s other works, telling photographs taken by David Dawson of Freud in his studio, and images by such great artists of the past as van Gogh and Titian who are discussed by Freud and Gayford. Full of wry observations, the book reveals the inside story of how it feels to pose for a remarkable artist and become a work of art.

The Fictional 100

Lucy Pollard-Gott
The Fictional 100 Book PDF

Author : Lucy Pollard-Gott
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781440154393

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The Fictional 100 by Lucy Pollard-Gott Pdf

Some of the most influential and interesting people in the world are fictional. Sherlock Holmes, Huck Finn, Pinocchio, Anna Karenina, Genji, and Superman, to name a few, may not have walked the Earth (or flown, in Superman's case), but they certainly stride through our lives. They influence us personally: as childhood friends, catalysts to our dreams, or even fantasy lovers. Peruvian author and presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa, for one, confessed to a lifelong passion for Flaubert's Madame Bovary. Characters can change the world. Witness the impact of Solzhenitsyn's Ivan Denisovich, in exposing the conditions of the Soviet Gulag, or Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom, in arousing anti-slavery feeling in America. Words such as quixotic, oedipal, and herculean show how fictional characters permeate our language. This list of the Fictional 100 ranks the most influential fictional persons in world literature and legend, from all time periods and from all over the world, ranging from Shakespeare's Hamlet [1] to Toni Morrison's Beloved [100]. By tracing characters' varied incarnations in literature, art, music, and film, we gain a sense of their shape-shifting potential in the culture at large. Although not of flesh and blood, fictional characters have a life and history of their own. Meet these diverse and fascinating people. From the brash Hercules to the troubled Holden Caulfield, from the menacing plots of Medea to the misguided schemes of Don Quixote, The Fictional 100 runs the gamut of heroes and villains, young and old, saints and sinners. Ponder them, fall in love with them, learn from their stories the varieties of human experience--let them live in you.

Storytelling Across Japanese Conversational Genre

Polly Ellen Szatrowski
Storytelling Across Japanese Conversational Genre Book PDF

Author : Polly Ellen Szatrowski
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027226532

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Storytelling Across Japanese Conversational Genre by Polly Ellen Szatrowski Pdf

This book investigates how Japanese participants accommodate to and make use of genre-specific characteristics to make stories tellable, create interpersonal involvement, negotiate responsibility, and show their personal selves. The analyses of storytelling in casual conversation, animation narratives, television talk shows, survey interviews, and large university lectures focus on participation/participatory framework, topical coherence, involvement, knowledge, the story recipient s role, prosody and nonverbal behavior. Story tellers across genre are shown to use linguistic/paralinguistic (prosody, reported speech, style shifting, demonstratives, repetition, ellipsis, co-construction, connectives, final particles, onomatopoeia) and nonverbal (gesture, gaze, head nodding) devices to involve their recipients, and recipients also use a multiple of devices (laughter, repetition, responsive forms, posture changes) to shape the development of the stories. Nonverbal behavior proves to be a rich resource and constitutive feature of storytelling across genre. The analyses also shed new light on grammar across genre (ellipsis, demonstratives, clause combining), and illustrate a variety of methods for studying genre."

Sanshirō

Natsume Sōseki
Sanshir Book PDF

Author : Natsume Sōseki
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781513288321

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Sanshirō by Natsume Sōseki Pdf

Sanshirō (1908) is a novel by Natsume Sōseki. Inspired by the author’s experience as a student from the countryside who moved to Tokyo, Sanshirō is a story of family, growth, and identity that captures the isolation and humor of adjusting to life on one’s own. Recognized as a powerful story by generations of readers, Sanshirō is a classic novel from one of Japan’s most successful twentieth century writers. Raised on the island of Kyushu, Sanshirō Ogawa excels in high school and earns the chance to continue his studies at the University of Tokyo. On his way there, he naively accepts an invitation to share a room with a young woman in Nagoya, realizing only too late that she has other things than sleep in mind. As he adjusts to life in the big city, he finds himself stumbling into more uncomfortable situations with women, radical political figures, and interfering colleagues, all of which shape his sense of identity while teaching him the value of trust, courage, and self-respect. While he misses his family and friends in Kyushu, Sanshirō learns to value his newfound independence, forming friendships that will last a lifetime. Sanshirō proves a gifted student but struggles to understand the intricacies of academic life. As he begins a relationship with the lovely Mineko, he begins to doubt his ability to defy tradition. Will he return home to raise a family in Kyushu, or remain in Tokyo to chart a path of his own? Eminently human, Sanshirō is a beloved story of isolation, morality, and conflict from a master of Japanese fiction. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Natsume Sōseki’s Sanshirō is a classic work of Japanese literature reimagined for modern readers.