Essential for anyone interested in Japanese culture, this unsurpassed masterwork opens an intriguing window on Japan. The World War II-era study by the cultural anthropologist Ruth Benedict paints an illuminating contrast between the people of Japan and those of the United States. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword is a revealing look at how and why our societies differ, making it the perfect introduction to Japanese history and customs.

Yayoi, a nineteen-year-old woman from a seemingly loving middle-class family, has lately been haunted by the feeling that she has forgotten something important from her childhood. Her premonition grows stronger day by day and, as if led by it, she decides to move in with her mysterious aunt, Yukino.

Inspired as a boy by the multiple meanings to be found for a single word in the dictionary, Kohei Araki is devoted to the notion that a dictionary is a boat to carry us across the sea of words. But after thirty-seven years creating them at Gembu Books, it's time for him to retire and find his replacement. He discovers a kindred spirit in Mitsuya Majime - a young, disheveled square peg with a penchant for collecting antiquarian books and a background in linguistics - whom he swipes from his company's sales department.

"太宰治(本名 津島修治）は、小学校では学校始まって以来富岳百景の秀才と称されるほど成績優秀で、特に作文に優れ、腕白でいたずらっ子でもありました。

三島由紀夫に影響を与え、江戸川乱歩が「パノラマ島奇譚」を書くきっかけとなった怪奇的幻想小説。

エドガー・アラン・ポーの『アルンハイムの地所』に影響されて書かれたとされる本作。

主人公「私」と、少年時代からの友人である岡村君との対話によって浮き彫りになる、芸術に対する思想の違い。

「無頼派」「新戯作派」の破滅型作家を代表する昭和初期の小説家、太宰治の初期短編小説。初出は「鷭」［1934（昭和9）年］。「撰ばれてあることの恍惚と不安と二つわれにあり」のエピグラフ

Caleb is playing Mud Monsters. He's a muddy mess. Time for Bubble Trouble! He takes a soapy bath to chase dirt and germs away. Caleb also makes a No Germ Zone at the dinner table. And he brushes and flosses his teeth before bed. Goodbye, germs!

Tokyo resident Keiko Furukara has never fit in - neither in her family, nor in school - but when at the age of 18 she begins working at the Hiiromachi branch of national convenience store chain Smile Mart, she realizes instantly that she has found her purpose in life. Delighted to be able to exist in a place where the rules of social interaction are crystal clear (many are laid out line-by-line in the store's manual), Keiko does her best to copy the dress, mannerisms, and mode of speech of her colleagues, playing the part of a "normal" person excellently, more or less.

Against the mythical dreamscape of America, Auster brilliantly weaves the bizarre narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg, an orphan searching for love, his father, and the key to the riddle of his origin and fate.

太宰治(本名 津島修治）は、小学校では学校始まって以来富岳百景の秀才と称されるほど成績優秀で、特に作文に優れ、腕白でいたずらっ子でもありました。

Akira Kido is a divorce attorney whose own marriage is in danger of being destroyed by emotional disconnect. With a midlife crisis looming, Kido's life is upended by the reemergence of a former client, Rié Takemoto. She wants Kido to investigate a dead man - her recently deceased husband, Daisuké. Upon his death she discovered that he’d been living a lie. His name, his past, his entire identity belonged to someone else, a total stranger.

小林秀雄らに評価され、梶井基次郎自身が文壇に認められる作品となった『檸檬』をはじめ、美しく儚い小説27作品を収録　明治から昭和にかけて美しく、物哀しい短編を数多く遺している文人・梶井基次郎。

学問を修め、品性を磨いて自身の人格を高めていくという教育方針の中で育った有島武郎は、西洋風の教育を受け、ミッションスクールで西洋思想を身につけました。 学習院を経て進学した札幌農学校

"太宰治(本名 津島修治）は、小学校では学校始まって以来富岳百景の秀才と称されるほど成績優秀で、特に作文に優れ、腕白でいたずらっ子でもありました。

時の流れの呪縛から解き放たれたビリー・ピルグリムは、自分の生涯の未来と過去とを往来する、奇妙な時間旅行者になっていた。大富豪の娘と幸福な結婚生活を送り……