Warriors of Old Japan and Other Stories - Softcover

Ozaki, Yei Theodora

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1483701433 ISBN 13: 9781483701431

Publisher: Classics Press, 2013

Synopsis

In a country whose people are born story-tellers, where story-telling long since rose to the dignity of a profession, and the story-teller is sure of an appreciative audience, whether at a village fair or in a city theatre, the authoress had not to go far afield in search of her materials. But the range of this class of literature is wide, embracing as it does all that goes to make folk-lore, legendary history, fairy tales, and myths. From all these sources the present stories are drawn, and in each case the selection is justified and the story loses nothing in the telling. The simple directness of narrative peculiar to Japanese tales is not lost in the English setting, and the little glimpses we are given into Japanese verse may tempt the reader to do like Oliver Twist and "ask for more."

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About the Author:

Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English and another billion in one hundred foreign countries. She is the author of eighty novels and short-story collections, nineteen plays, and six novels under the name Mary Westmacott. She died in 1976.

About this edition

• Publisher: Classics Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1483701433
• ISBN 13: 9781483701431
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160