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To the Monster I Love, Vol. 1 (novel)

by ryunosuke, Gesoking ...

Translated by Laura Sitzer ...

Series Book 1 - To the Monster I Love
Bardium is a tightly guarded city where magic, miracles, and illusions aren’t allowed. Here, in a dimly lit room, a young boy named Norman is being interrogated. He’s asked about Unlaw—supernatural monsters who gain abilities from unstable emotion. Four of these beings, all beautiful women, are now hunting each other down, and Norman must sate their desires while dealing with other oddities ... Read more

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Bardium is a tightly guarded city where magic, miracles, and illusions aren’t allowed. Here, in a dimly lit room, a young boy named Norman is being interrogated. He’s asked about Unlaw—supernatural monsters who gain abilities from unstable emotion. Four of these beings, all beautiful women, are now hunting each other down, and Norman must sate their desires while dealing with other oddities
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To the Monster I Love, Vol. 2 (novel)

by ryunosuke, Gesoking ...

Translated by Laura Sitzer ...

Series Book 2 - To the Monster I Love
EVERYBODY, PARTNER UP!A month after the Jim Adamworth incident, Norman and his four Unlaw settle into their new lives at the Elementary Detective Agency. However, just because life at home is peaceful doesn’t mean the city of Bardium has gotten any less chaotic. Lonsday and Eltiel team up to take down the Mad Bomber, and along the way, discover the existence of anti-Unlaw weapons. Meanwhile, ... Read more

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EVERYBODY, PARTNER UP!A month after the Jim Adamworth incident, Norman and his four Unlaw settle into their new lives at the Elementary Detective Agency. However, just because life at home is peaceful doesn’t mean the city of Bardium has gotten any less chaotic. Lonsday and Eltiel team up to take down the Mad Bomber, and along the way, discover the existence of anti-Unlaw weapons. Meanwhile,
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Neglected Authors, The - Volume 1

Celebrated in their time, forgotten in ours

by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Grant Allen, Leonid Andreyev, Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev, Gertrude Atherton, Lady Augusta Gregory, Stacy Aumonier, William Austin, William Austin, Richard Harris Barham, Robert Barr0, Charles Baudelaire1, Aphra Behn2, John Davys Beresford3, Helena Blavatsky4, Marjorie Bowen5, Mary Elizabeth Braddon6, Ernest Bramah7, D K Broster8, Rhoda Broughton9, Valery Bryusov0, Thomas Burke1 ...

Narrated by Eve Karpf2, Mark Rice-Oxley3, David Shaw-Parker4 ...

Unabridged

12 hours 31 min

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

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Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
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To the Monster I Love, Vol. 3 (novel)

by ryunosuke, Gesoking ...

Translated by Laura Sitzer ...

Series Book 3 - To the Monster I Love
Two infamous Unlaw have escaped the capital, and the Elementary Detective Agency are dispatched to recapture them. Norman leads the group to a seedy casino for what should be an easy mission…only to be confronted by enemies from the not-so-distant past. To make matters worse, these villains appear to be a lot stronger than they once were. And as the battle heats up, the line between ‘human’ and ... Read more

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Two infamous Unlaw have escaped the capital, and the Elementary Detective Agency are dispatched to recapture them. Norman leads the group to a seedy casino for what should be an easy mission…only to be confronted by enemies from the not-so-distant past. To make matters worse, these villains appear to be a lot stronger than they once were. And as the battle heats up, the line between ‘human’ and
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - Unreliable Narrator

The ten best short stories of all time with unreliable narrators

by George Eliot, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy De Maupassant, Nikolai Gogol, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Barry Pain, Ambrose Bierce, J M Barrie, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Robert W Chambers ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Ian Holm, Liza Ross ...

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7 hours 31 min

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
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Foundations of Fiction, The - The Murder Mystery

The stories that created one of the most popular genres in fiction

by Ambrose Bierce, Amelia Edwards, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, Charles Dickens, D K Broster, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Stewart Drewery, Frank R Stockton, Fredric Brown, H G Wells, Hugh Walpole, J M Barrie, Jack London, Móritz Jókai, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Saki, Susan Glaspell, T F Powys, W F Harvey ...

Narrated by Christopher Ragland, Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

13 hours 11 min

In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success ... Read more

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In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success
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Stories Exploring Morality

Right vs wrong

by James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Louis Stevenson, F Scott Fitzgerald, Guy de Maupassant, Leo Tolstoy, Martha Gruening, Ambrose Bierce, Ambrose Bierce0, Ryunosuke Akutagawa1, Frank R Stockton2 ...

Narrated by Jim Norton3, David Shaw-Parker4, Warren Keyes5 ...

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10 hours 50 min

The concept of right and wrong, of good and bad, is taught to us from childhood. It’s a guiding principle as we journey through the decades of life. Easy to keep to? Sometimes it’s easier not to.Authors of the talent of Franz Kafka, F Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Louis Stevenson and many others create characters and circumstances that test their capacity for morality to the limit.1 - Stories Exploring ... Read more

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The concept of right and wrong, of good and bad, is taught to us from childhood. It’s a guiding principle as we journey through the decades of life. Easy to keep to? Sometimes it’s easier not to.Authors of the talent of Franz Kafka, F Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Louis Stevenson and many others create characters and circumstances that test their capacity for morality to the limit.1 - Stories Exploring
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The Practice of Not Thinking

A Guide to Mindful Living

by Ryunosuke Koike ...

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 TimesWhat 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 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 TimesWhat 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
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30 Mystery & Investigation masterpieces

by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Hollis Godfrey, Thomas Hardy, William Le Queux, Maurice Leblanc, Gaston Leroux, Catherine Louisa Pirkis, Edgar Allan Poe, Frank R. Stockton, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Carolyn Wells, Fred Merrick White ...

Step into a world where every clue counts, every shadow whispers danger, and every page pulls you deeper into the unknown. This extraordinary collection brings together 30 legendary Mystery & Investigation masterpieces, written by some of the most influential authors in crime and detective fiction. From gripping whodunits to sophisticated psychological puzzles, these unforgettable stories deliver ... Read more

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Step into a world where every clue counts, every shadow whispers danger, and every page pulls you deeper into the unknown. This extraordinary collection brings together 30 legendary Mystery & Investigation masterpieces, written by some of the most influential authors in crime and detective fiction. From gripping whodunits to sophisticated psychological puzzles, these unforgettable stories deliver
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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa – A Short Story Collection

by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa ...

Ryūnosuke Niihara was born in Irifune, Kyōbashi, Tokyo City in Japan on the 1st March 1892. Sadly, his mother suffered severe mental illness after his birth and so, at only eight months old, he was sent to be raised by his maternal uncle and aunt, from whom he received the Akutagawa family name.Even during his early years he was fascinated by classical Chinese literature and, in 1910, when he ... Read more

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Ryūnosuke Niihara was born in Irifune, Kyōbashi, Tokyo City in Japan on the 1st March 1892. Sadly, his mother suffered severe mental illness after his birth and so, at only eight months old, he was sent to be raised by his maternal uncle and aunt, from whom he received the Akutagawa family name.Even during his early years he was fascinated by classical Chinese literature and, in 1910, when he
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The Essential Akutagawa

Twenty-Two Short Stories by Japan's Master Storyteller

by Ryunosuke Akutagawa ...

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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"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
Kappa

by Ryunosuke Akutagawa ...

Translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, Allison Markin Powell ...

Akutagawa’s magical final work is a short novel with a magic spell all its own—poignant, fantastical, wry, melancholic, and wittyThe Kappa is a creature from Japanese folklore known for dragging unwary toddlers to their deaths in rivers: a scaly, child-sized creature, looking something like a frog, but with a sharp, pointed beak and an oval-shaped saucer on top of its head, which hardens with age ... Read more

$10.29 USD

Akutagawa’s magical final work is a short novel with a magic spell all its own—poignant, fantastical, wry, melancholic, and wittyThe Kappa is a creature from Japanese folklore known for dragging unwary toddlers to their deaths in rivers: a scaly, child-sized creature, looking something like a frog, but with a sharp, pointed beak and an oval-shaped saucer on top of its head, which hardens with age
... Read more

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