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'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!'
Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the Prison , Uno's Closet LLB and Akutagawa's deeply macabre General Kim.
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.
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_'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!'_ Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's _Behind the Prison_ , Uno's _Closet LLB_ and Akutagawa's deeply macabre _General Kim._ Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the ico
_'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!'_ Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's _Behind the Prison_ , Uno's _Closet LLB_ and Akutagawa's deeply macabre _General Kim._ Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the ico
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