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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde • 1993
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë • 1992
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop A Novel
Satoshi Yagisawa • 2023
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The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath • 2005
<p><i>The Bell Jar</i> chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made <i>The Bell Jar</i> a haunting American classic.</p> <p>This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.</p>
The Setting Sun
太宰治 • 1968
No Longer Human
太宰治 • 1958
<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>
Before the Coffee Gets Cold Tales from the Cafe
Toshikazu Kawaguchi • 2020
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi • 2019
Human Acts
Han Kang • 2017
The White Book
Han Kang • 2018
The Metamorphosis: by Franz Kafka | Deluxe Edition
Franz Kafka • 2021
The Sherlock Holmes Collection: Deluxe 6-Volume Box Set Edition
Arthur Conan Doyle • 2017
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 2017
The Vegetarian By Han Kang - Includes Analysis
InstaRead Summaries Staff • 2016
The Stranger
Albert Camus • 2022
To Read
Schoolgirl
Osamu Dazai • 2011
Before We Forget Kindness
Toshikazu Kawaguchi • 2024
Before We Say Goodbye
Toshikazu Kawaguchi • 2023
Before Your Memory Fades
Toshikazu Kawaguchi • 2022
