A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
By: Yoshida Kenkō , Meredith McKinney
3.74
Format: 51 pages, Paperback
'It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune wi…
Want to Read"It is the ephemeral nature of things that makes them wonderful."-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
"After all, things thought but left unsaid only fester inside you."-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
"Knowledge leads to deception; talent and ability only serve to increase earthly desires."-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
"I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky"-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
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1. How to Use Your Enemies
By: Baltasar Gracián , Gracián Baltasar
3.64
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
'Better mad with the crowd than sane all alone' In these witty, Machiavellian aphorisms, unlike… read more
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"Deal with people from whom you can learn"-Baltasar Gracián, How to Use Your Enemies
"Cautious silence is the refuge of good sense"-Baltasar Gracián, How to Use Your Enemies
"What passion rushes to flatter, time is slow to disillusion us about."-Baltasar Gracián, How to Use Your Enemies
"Not all truths can be spoken: some because they are important to me, others to someone else."-Baltasar Gracián, How to Use Your Enemies
2. The Eve of St. Agnes
By: John Keats
3.68
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
'Hoodwink'd in faery fancy...' This volume contains a selection of Keats's greatest verse - inc… read more
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"Upon the honey’d middle of the night,"-John Keats, The Eve of St. Agnes
3. Alone on the Beach at Night
By: Walt Whitman
3.22
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
'All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages...' A selection taken from Walt Whit… read more
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4. A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
By: Yoshida Kenkō , Meredith McKinney
3.74
Format: 51 pages, Paperback
'It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune wi… read more
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- poetry
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- literature
- asia
- philosophy
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- japanese literature
- japan
"It is the ephemeral nature of things that makes them wonderful."-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
"After all, things thought but left unsaid only fester inside you."-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
"Knowledge leads to deception; talent and ability only serve to increase earthly desires."-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
"I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky"-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
5. Three Tang Dynasty Poets
By: Wang Wei , Du Fu , Li Bai
3.35
Format: 64 pages, Mass Market Paperback
'Can I bear to leave these blue hills?' A generous selection from three of the greatest and mos… read more
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6. Wailing Ghosts
By: Pu Songling , John Minford
3.25
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
'...revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.' Some of the most macabre and wo… read more
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"Strange that a man could succeed in hanging himself from a millet stalk. Let this be a warning to libertines and pranksters."-Pu Songling, Wailing Ghosts
7. Woman Much Missed
By: Thomas Hardy
3.59
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
'Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me...' After the death of his wife Emma, a grief… read more
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"Soon will be growing Green blades from her mound, And daisies be showing Like stars on the ground, Till she form part of them - Ay - the sweet heart of them, Loved beyond measure With a child's pleas…"-Thomas Hardy, Woman Much Missed
8. Femme Fatale
By: Guy de Maupassant
3.56
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
A selection of Maupassant's brilliant, glittering stories set in the Parisian beau monde and Norman… read more
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9. Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls
By: Marco Polo
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
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10. Caligula
By: Suetonius
4.00
Format: 10 pages, Paperback
'Because of his baldness and hairiness, he announced it was a capital offence for anyone either to … read more
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11. As Kingfishers Catch Fire
By: Gerard Manley Hopkins
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
'O let them be left, wildness and wet' As Kingfishers Catch Fire is a selection of Gerard Manley Ho… read more
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12. Aphorisms on Love and Hate
By: Friedrich Nietzsche
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
'We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our earliest youth ... Likewise, hatred mus… read more
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13. Traffic
By: John Ruskin
3.70
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
'You shall have thousands of gold pieces;--thousands of thousands--millions--mountains of gold: whe… read more
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14. A Modest Proposal
By: Jonathan Swift
4.06
Format: 663 pages, Paperback
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Thei… read more
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15. Mrs Rosie and the Priest
By: Giovanni Boccaccio
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Four hilarious and provocative stories from Boccaccio's Decameron, featuring cuckolded husbands, cr… read more
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16. The Old Man of the Moon
By: Shěn Fù
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
'Our passion was so great. Will the Old Man understand and help us once again?' The Old Man of the … read more
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17. The Life of a Stupid Man
By: Jay Rubin , Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
'What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.' … read more
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18. The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue
By: Anonymous
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
'In two I'll slice the hair-seat / of Helga's kiss-gulper' In this epic tale from the Viking Age th… read more
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20. On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
By: Thomas de Quincey
3.86
Format: 368 pages,
'People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockhea… read more
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21. Lips Too Chilled
By: Matsuo Bashō , Lucien Stryk
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Nothing more lonely -' A selection of Basho's most magical haiku Introducing Little Black Classics… read more
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