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1	Sound of Waves more books like this by Yukio Mishima add to wishlist Shinji, a fisherman, falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of the richest man in his village, and the couple must persevere despite community disapproval. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Forbidden Colors more books like this by Yukio Mishima add to wishlist Irresistible to women, the beautiful, young Yuichi embarks on a loveless marriage while he enters a homosexual underworld during postwar Japan. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.46! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Confessions of a mask more books like this by Yukio Mishima add to wishlist In this book the reader is taken into the world of homosexual sado-masochism. The author was a homosexual whose inner life was dominated by images of pain and death, and his death reflected this, when in 1970 he had himself ritually beheaded as a protest against the westernization of Japan. see all copies from $2.19! new only from $7.47! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea more books like this by Yukio Mishima add to wishlist A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys who reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity.' see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.98! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Spring snow more books like this by Yukio Mishima add to wishlist Spring Snow is set in Tokyo in 1912, when the hermetic world of the Imperial court and the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders. First in the acclaimed Sea of Fertility tetralogy. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.97! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Acts of worship : seven stories more books like this by Yukio Mishima add to wishlist Nineteen years after Mishima's ritual death in 1970 at the age of 45 comes this collection of his short fiction. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Sun & Steel more books like this by Yukio Mishima add to wishlist This is the personal testament of Japan's greatest novelist, written shorty before his public suicide in 1970. Through Mishima's finely wrought and emphatic prose, the mind and motivation behind his agonized search for personal identity is revealed. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.64! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Temple of Dawn more books like this by Yukio Mishima add to wishlist The third book in Mishima's landmark The Sea of Fertility sequence, this novel tells the story of one man's obsessive pursuit of a beautiful woman and his equally passionate search for enlightenment. see all copies from $2.31! new only from $8.88! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Runaway horses more books like this by Mishima add to wishlist Runaway Horses is the chronicle of a patriotic conspiracy, a novel about the roots and nature of Japanese fanaticism in the years that led to war, in a Japan marked by depression, the confusion of changing social patterns, political violence and assassination. Second in The Sea of Fertility tetralogy. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.89! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Temple of the Golden Pavilion more books like this by Yukio Mishima add to wishlist Mizoguchi has a stutter and is the butt of his classmates' jokes. He becomes an acolyte at a Kyoto temple, and develops an obsession with the temple's beauty. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The decay of the angel more books like this by Yukio Mishima add to wishlist The final volume in the "Sea of Fertility" series. The dominant themes of the story cycle are brought together as Honda discovers and adopts a 16-year-old orphan, Toru, as his heir. Is Toru destined to die young, as did each of the tragic protagonists of the three previous novels? see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.36! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Patriotism more books like this by Yukio Mishima, Geoffrey W. Sargent add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.43! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Death in midsummer, and other stories more books like this by Yukio Mishima add to wishlist Recognized throughout the world for his brilliance as a novelist and playwright, Yukio Mishima is also noted as a master of the short story in his native Japan. Here nine of his finest stories, selected by Mishima himself, represent his extraordinary ability to depict a wide variety of human beings in moments of significance. Often his characters ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.15! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	After the Banquet more books like this by Yukio Mishima add to wishlist With vast psychological acuity and an unblinking vision of the stratagems of marital warfare, the author tells of the shrewd but charming Kuzu who must choose between her marriage and the demands of her irrepressible vitality. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.01! \| first editions \| SVS
15	Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.53!
16	Sailor Fell Grace Pa more books like this by Yukio Mishima, John Nathan (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.38! \| first editions
17 view cover	My Mother/Madame Edwarda/The Dead Man more books like this by Georges Bataille, Yukio Mishima, Ken Hollings add to wishlist These three short pieces of erotic prose fuse elements of sex and spirituality in a highly personal vision of the flesh. They present a world of sensation in which the holy horrors of sex and the anguish of heightened awareness struggle against a stultifying world of reason and social order. This volume also contains Bataille's own introductions ... see all copies from $4.12! new only from $11.71! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	My Friend Hitler: And Other Plays more books like this by Yukio Mishima, Hiroaki Sato (Translator) add to wishlist Though best known for his novels, Yukio Mishima published more than sixty plays, almost all of which were produced during his lifetime. Among them are kabuki plays and others inspired by No dramas -- two types used in classical Japanese theater. Of play-writing Mishima once observed, "I started writing dramas just as water flows toward a lower ... see all copies from $4.17! new only from $5.86!
19 view cover	Thirst for Love more books like this by Yukio Mishima add to wishlist In this masterpiece of the sexual Gothic, Yukio Mishima creates a portrait ofobsessive love and corrosive jealousy among a young widow, her father-in-law, and a domestic servant. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.55! \| first editions \| SVS
20	The Way of the Samurai: Yukio Mishima on Hagakure in Modern Life more books like this by Yukio Mishima add to wishlist see all copies from $10.75! first editions
21	Madame de Sade. more books like this by Yukio Mishima add to wishlist see all copies from $15.87! new only from $53.88! \| first editions
22 view cover	Sound of the Waves more books like this by Yukio Mishima add to wishlist Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, this is a story of first love. Shinji is entranced at the sight of Hatsue in the twilight on the beach, upon her return from another island, where she had been training to be a pearl diver. They fall in love, but then endure the calumny and gossip of the villagers. see all copies from $6.73! new only from $9.56! \| first editions
23	Temple Gold Pavilion more books like this by Yukio Mishima, Ivan Morris (Translator) add to wishlist Mizoguchi has a stutter and is the butt of his classmates' jokes. He becomes an acolyte at a Kyoto temple, and develops an obsession with the temple's beauty. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| first editions
24 view cover	Ba-Ra-Kei: Ordeal by Roses more books like this by Eikoh Hosoe (Photographer), Mark Holborn (Afterword by), Yukio Mishima (Preface by) add to wishlist "Ba-ra-kei" is the fierce and lyrical testament of the legendary Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, who shocked the world when he committed ritual suicide in 1970. The year marked Japan's new economic confidence, and Mishima accused the country of being "drunk with prosperity." Many in Japan regarded the suicide as a sensational act. However, with the ... see all copies from $72.48! new only from $72.48! \| first editions
25 view cover	Silk and Insight: (Kinu to Meisatsu) more books like this by Yukio Mishima, Frank B Gibney (Editor), Hiroaki Sato (Translator) add to wishlist This is a tale based on the strike which took place in the mid-1950s at Omi Kenshi, a silk manufacturer not far from Tokyo. The events described reflect the management / labour tensions of the period and the book is a piece of social commentary on the transformation of Japanese business. see all copies from $3.53! new only from $42.07! \| first editions

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