Donald Keene

75 books

The Paper Door and Other Stories by Lane Dunlop, Donald Keene, Naoya Shiga

The Paper Door and Other Stories

Lane Dunlop, Donald Keene, Naoya Shiga

173 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

fiction short stories challenging reflective slow-paced
The Poetry of Our World: An International Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Carolyn Forché, Edward C. Dimock, Aga Shahid Ali, Garrett Hongo, Jeffery Paine, Donald Keene, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Edward Hirsch, Perry Link, Bei Dao, Sven Birkerts, Denise Levertov, Burton Raffel, Joseph Brodsky, Anita Desai, Helen Vendler

The Poetry of Our World: An International Anthology of Contemporary Poetry

Carolyn Forché, Edward C. Dimock, Aga Shahid Ali, Garrett Hongo, Jeffery Paine, Donald Keene, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Edward Hirsch, Perry Link, Bei Dao, Sven Birkerts, Denise Levertov, Burton Raffel, Joseph Brodsky, Anita Desai, Helen Vendler

544 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction poetry challenging informative slow-paced
The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai

The Setting Sun

Osamu Dazai

175 pages • first pub 1947 (editions)

fiction classics literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume Two: 1600 to 2000 (Second Edition) by Arthur E. Tiedemann, Carol Gluck, William Theodore de Bary

Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume Two: 1600 to 2000 (Second Edition)

Introduction to Asian Civilizations

Arthur E. Tiedemann, Carol Gluck, William Theodore de Bary

1448 pages • first pub 1958 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter by Yasunari Kawabata

The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter

Yasunari Kawabata

180 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

fiction classics adventurous emotional mysterious slow-paced
The Tale of the Shining Princess by Donald Keene, Sally Fisher

The Tale of the Shining Princess

Donald Keene, Sally Fisher

70 pages • first pub 1980 (editions)

fiction classics adventurous mysterious fast-paced
Three Plays by Kōbō Abe: Involuntary Homicide / The Green Stockings / The Ghost is Here by Kōbō Abe

Three Plays by Kōbō Abe: Involuntary Homicide / The Green Stockings / The Ghost is Here

Modern Asian Literature

Kōbō Abe

233 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

fiction play dark mysterious medium-paced
Travelers of a Hundred Ages: The Japanese as Revealed Through 1,000 Years of Diaries by Donald Keene

Travelers of a Hundred Ages: The Japanese as Revealed Through 1,000 Years of Diaries

Donald Keene

480 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
Twenty Plays of the Nō Theatre by Royall Tyler, Donald Keene

Twenty Plays of the Nō Theatre

Royall Tyler, Donald Keene

336 pages • first pub 1970 (editions)

fiction play adventurous dark slow-paced
The Winter Sun Shines in: A Life of Masaoka Shiki by Donald Keene

The Winter Sun Shines in: A Life of Masaoka Shiki

Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture

Donald Keene

248 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction biography poetry informative reflective slow-paced