Spring Snow Volume 2 - Runaway Horses - Volume 3 - The Temple of Dawn - Volume 4 - The Decay of the Angel

Mishima Yukio Translated from the Jamanese By Michael Gallagher

ISBN 10: 0394442393 / ISBN 13: 9780394442396

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1972

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The Sea of Fertility. A cycle of four novels.First American Editions. Remainder marks are on the bottom edges of Runaway Horses and The decay of the Angel.The Temple of the Dawn has the previous owners name inside on the front free end paper.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Spring Snow Volume 2 - Runaway Horses - Volume 3 - The Temple of Dawn - Volume 4 - The Decay of the Angel
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394442393
• ISBN 13: 9780394442396
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Kiyoaki Matsugae's passionate and ill-fated love for the betrothed daughter of a Tokyo aristocrat brings him into disfavor at the Imperial Court

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The first novel of Mishima's landmark tetralogy, The Sea of fertility
Spring Snow is set in Tokyo in 1912, when the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders -- rich provincial families unburdened by tradition, whose money and vitality make them formidable contenders for social and political power.
Among this rising new elite are the ambitious Matsugae, whose son has been raised in a family of the waning aristocracy, the elegant and attenuated Ayakura. Coming of age, he is caught up in the tensions between old and new -- fiercely loving and hating the exquisite, spirited Ayakura Satoko. He suffers in psychic paralysis until the shock of her engagement to a royal prince shows him the magnitude of his passion, and leads to a love affair that is as doomed as it was inevitable.