Three Japanese Short Stories

<p><i>'Oh the cruelty of time that destroys all things!'</i><br><br>Beguiling strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's <i>Behind the Prison</i> Uno's <i>Closet LLB</i> and Akutagawa's deeply macabre <i>General Kim.</i><br><br>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.</p>