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Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era; Fiction (A History of Japanese Literature - Volume 3)

This is the first of a multivolume history of modern Japanese literature. Volume one is devoted to the study of fiction, and contains complete studies of all the important Japanese writers since the Meiji restoration in 1868, both those widely read in the West and other lesser known writers.

Audience
adult
Length
epic · 1329 pages

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