# Three Japanese Short Stories

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- Book: [Three Japanese Short Stories](https://www.bookquiver.com/ryunosuke-akutagawa/three-japanese-short-stories) ([Three Japanese Short Stories.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ryunosuke-akutagawa/three-japanese-short-stories.md))
- Authors: [Ryūnosuke Akutagawa](https://www.bookquiver.com/ryunosuke-akutagawa), [Kafū Nagai](https://www.bookquiver.com/kafu-nagai), [Chiyo Uno](https://www.bookquiver.com/chiyo-uno)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4133-975-6
- Published: 2018-03-08
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!' Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the Prison , Uno's Closet LLB and Akutagawa's deeply macabre General Kim. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.