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Five Women Who Loved Love: Amorous Tales from 17th-Century Japan
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Include books by the same authorHouse of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories
Yasunari Kawabata · 160 pages
The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories
Theodore W. Goossen · 496 pages
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
Lafcadio Hearn · 101 pages
The Push Man and Other Stories
Yoshihiro Tatsumi · 224 pages
"Over four decades ago, Yoshihiro Tatsumi expanded the horizons of comics story-telling by using the visual language of manga to tell gritty, literary short stories about the private lives of everyday people. He has been called "the grandfather of Japanese alternative comics" and has influenced generations of cartoonists, but, until now, the majority of his work has remained unavailable outside of
The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories
Alexander Pushkin · 280 pages
Men Without Women
Haruki Murakami, murakami haruki · 240 pages
"A dazzling new collection of short stories--the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami since his #1 best-selling Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings
Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 256 pages
Eleonora
Edgar Allan Poe
"Eleonora" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1842 in Philadelphia in the literary annual The Gift. It is often regarded as somewhat autobiographical and has a relatively "happy" ending. ---------- This story also contained in: [Cuentos](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16918363W) [E. A. Poe's Novellen von der liebe](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14938036W) [Fall of
The Wild Geese
Ogai Mori · 128 pages
In The Wild Geese, prominent Japanese novelist Ogai Mori offers a poignant story of unfulfilled love. The young heroine, Otama, is forced by poverty to become a moneylender's mistress. Her dawning consciousness of her predicament brings the novel to a touching climax.