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No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai • 1973
<p> Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. </p><p>Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. His attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a "clown" to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness.</p><p>Still one of the ten bestselling books in Japan, No Longer Human is an important and unforgettable modern classic: "The struggle of the individual to fit into a normalizing society remains just as relevant today as it was at the time of writing." (The Japan Times)</p>
A Little Princess: Classic Edition with Illustrations
Frances Hodgson Burnett • 2021
Charlotte's Web
E. B. White • 2005
Dracula: Unabridged and Fully Illustrated
Bram Stoker • 2021
The Fall
Albert Camus • 2020
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson • 2023
The Phantom of the Opera: 2022 Edition
Gaston Leroux • 2022
Fever 1793
Laurie Halse Anderson • 2002
The Setting Sun
太宰治 • 1968
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Naked Lunch
William S Burroughs • 1969
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions)
Oscar Wilde • 2012
Notes from the Underground
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 2015
Notes from the underground is considered to be the first of Dostoyevsky's existentialist novels. It is based on the memoirs of an unnamed narrator who is a retired civil servant living in St Petersburg. One of Dostoyevsky's most compelling works, filled with intrigue, depth and great meaning. A literary jewel that has been loved by many for decades. All profits from the sale of this book will go to the Freeriver Community project, a project aimed at promoting peace and harmony in the world. www.freerivercommunity.com
The Idiot (Vintage Classics)
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 2012
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic tale of one man’s pure innocence in the face of a society obsessed with power, money, and manipulation The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and “be among people.” Even before he reaches home he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchant’s son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement. In Petersburg the prince finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with money, power, and manipulation. Scandal escalates to murder as Dostoevsky traces the surprising effect of this “positively beautiful man” on the people around him, leading to a final scene that is one of the most powerful in all of world literature. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley • 2020
King Lear
William Shakespeare • 2018
Dostoevsky’s "Crime and Punishment"
Deborah A. Martinsen • 2022
Nana by Emile Zola, Fiction, Classics
Emile Zola • 2008
Los Hermanos Karamasov/the Karamasov Brothers (Spanish Edition)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 2004
Animal Farm
George Orwell • 2024
"Animal Farm" by George Orwell is a classic allegorical novella depicting a farm where animals overthrow their human owner to establish a society based on equality and fairness. Led by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, the animals initially strive to create a utopian community free from human exploitation. However, power corrupts, and the pigs gradually betray the founding principles of equality, leading to oppression and inequality among the animals. Orwell's powerful critique of totalitarianism and political hypocrisy resonates through vivid characters and events, highlighting the dangers of unchecked power and the manipulation of ideology for personal gain.
1984
George Orwell • 1961
<b>Written more than 70 years ago, <i>1984</i> was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...<br><br><b>• Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read •</i></b><br></b><br>“<i>The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.</i>”<br><br>Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching...<br><br>A startling and haunting novel, <i>1984</i> creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the novel’s hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions—a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.
Manga
Tokyo Ghoul
Sui Ishida • 2015
Chainsaw Man
Tatsuki Fujimoto
Fire Punch
Tatsuki Fujimoto • 2018
<b>In a frozen dystopia where inhabitants eat flesh to survive, can the destructive powers of fire bring salvation?</b><br><br>In the not-too-distant past, the Ice Witch blankets the world in snow, starvation, and madness, leading the inhabitants to seek their salvation in fire. With that, an unusual destiny unfolds for two young orphans, Agni and Luna, blessed with the ability to regenerate. But will this ability prove to be more of a curse than a blessing?<br><br>Orphaned siblings Agni and Luna, like the Ice Witch who cursed their world, are two of the “blessed,” humans who hold special abilities. However, not all who are blessed are friendly, and after another of their kind attacks Agni and decimates the orphans' village, Agni fights to survive, vowing revenge.
All You Need Is Kill
Ryosuke Takeuchi • 2014
Homunculus
Hideo Yamamoto • 2023
Adabana
NON • 2024
Llega el segundo tomo de Adabana, ¡no te pierdas esta historia de suspense que ha sido todo un éxito en Francia y en Japón!<br/>Nos remontamos a medio año antes de que Mizuki Aikawa se entregue a la policía y confiese que asesinó a su gran amiga Mako Igarashi y a su tío. Mako conoce a Yuuki Akatsuki y cae en una relación tóxica de la que es incapaz de escapar. ¿Cómo acabó Mako muriendo en el periodo de mayor esplendor de su vida, cuando había hecho tan buenas migas con Mizuki? En esta ocasión, la historia se presenta desde el punto de vista de Mako, la víctima... ¿Cuál es la verdad?
Litchi Hikari Club
Usamaru Furuya • 2022
Le Litchi Hikari Club n’est pas un gentil cercle d’amateurs de fruits exotiques mais une sorte de secte de collégiens sanguinaires prônant la jeunesse et la perfection esthétique. À leur tête, le terrible Zéra, dictateur prépubère au goût prononcé pour la torture, cherche par tous les moyens à s’emparer de jolies filles. Avec l’aide de ses fidèles comparses, il va donc construire un robot surpuissant se nourrissant exclusivement de litchis, qui aura pour mission de partir en chasse à leur place. Mais cette machine restera-t-elle dévouée ? L’intrusion de filles au sein du club sera t-elle sans conséquences ? Qui trahira Zéra le despote ? Sur fond de récit de vengeance, l’auteur construit une intrigue à la Frankenstein qui mêle complots et romances secrètes. Un huis clos terrifiant qui s’achève dans le bruit et la fureur… Adaptation d’une pièce de Norimizu Ameya, fondateur de la compagnie théâtrale engagée Tokyo Grand Guignol, Litchi Hikari Club traite de manière subversive des thèmes tels que la violence, l’homosexualité, le nazisme et la religion.
Bokura no Hikari Club
Usamaru Furuya • 2011
Notre Hikari Club Vol.2 est à la fois un prequel de Litchi Hikari Club et la suite de Notre Hikari Club. Usamaru Furuya nous expose dans ce second opus les motivations de chaque membre du Litchi Hikari Club mais aussi leurs craintes et leur ressenti. Toujours aussi cru, l’auteur nous fait également redécouvrir des scènes sous un angle différent comme le meurtre du professeur ou encore la punition des traitres…On assiste aussi au sacrifice de Niko, qui donne son œil au Litchi Hikari Club afin de prouver sa loyauté.
Metamorphosis
Shindo L. • 2013
Oogetsuhime no Yama
Amagappa Shoujogun • 2019
Mai-chan's Daily Life
Waita Uziga • 2004
Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show
Suehiro Maruo • 1992
No Longer Human (Junji Ito)
Junji Ito • 2019
Blood on the Tracks
Shuzo Oshimi • 2020
Oyasumi Punpun
Inio Asano • 2017
Una apasionante serie de 13 tomos en versión idéntica a la japonesa. Un manga atípico y apasionante donde una trama completamente realista es presentada con ciertos detalles surrealistas. Básicamente narra la vida de Punpun desde primaria hasta la universidad, creciendo con una familia disfuncional y varios traumas. El ambiente es medio deprimente y oscuro a veces. Se muestra como Punpun lidia con la soledad, la dificultad para hacer amigos, el divorcio de sus padres, la primera experiencia sexual con una persona de su entorno que dista de ser lo ideal... y un amor platónico recurrente al que se aferra pese a que otras mujeres se interesan por él. Al final el mensaje es: "la vida es dura y no tiene solución, hay que bancársela y seguir". En definitiva es una historia de personas normales. No hay nada paranormal ni mágico, está ubicada en lugares y tiempos reales. Pero, sin embargo, Punpun es dibujado como un pajarito y además a veces cambia de forma para reflejar sus estados de ánimo... cuando los demás personajes y fondos son todos hiperrealistas. Hay un tomo entero en que como parece que se vuelve emo pasa a ser dibujado como una pirámide. Otro en que se vuelve como autodestructivo y entonces tiene cuerpo real pero con una cabeza alargada... Lo único "irreal" es que a veces sale un "Dios", que es acá una especie de Carlitos Balá con pelo afro y le habla. Como una imagen de la conciencia que básicamente se ríe de él. Tomado de : https://rebrand.ly/3ox8g2h.
Sayonara Eri
Tatsuki Fujimoto • 2024
Look Back
Tatsuki Fujimoto • 2022
