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1	The Complete Kama Sutra: The First Unabridged Modern Translation of the Classic Indian Text more books like this by Mallanaga Vatsyayana, Alain Danielou (Translator), Alain Daniilou (Translator) add to wishlist This edition of the definitive modern translation of Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra is the first to include two essential commentaries--the Jayamangala of Yashodhara and the modern Hindi commentary by Devadatta Shastri. Danielou spent four years comparing versions of the Kama Sutra, drawing on his intimate experience of India to preserve the full ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.94! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Anthology of Japanese literature from the earliest era to the mid-nineteenth century more books like this by Donald Keene (Editor) add to wishlist The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology. Every genre and style, from the celebrated No plays to the poetry and novels of the seventeenth century, find a place in this book. An introduction by Donald Keene places the selections in their proper historical ... see all copies from $3.01! new only from $6.70! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology more books like this by Kevin Crossley-Holland (Translator) add to wishlist Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Dream of the Rood, The Wanderer, and The Seafarer are among the greatest surviving Anglo-Saxon poems. They, and many other treasures, are included in The Anglo-Saxon World: chronicles, laws and letters, charters and charms, and above all superb poems. Here is a word picture of a people who came to these ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Fireflies more books like this by Rabindranath Tagore add to wishlist Fireflies, or brief poems, originated in China and Japan and were often written on pieces of silk. This is a collection of proverbs, aphorisms and maxims. Collected by Rabindranath Tagore over many years, each firefly, rarely more than a sentence long, represents a luminous thought on love, life, beauty or God. see all copies from $6.55! new only from $8.63! \| first editions
5	The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature more books like this by Professor Victor H Mair (Editor) add to wishlist Complete with an introduction tracing the history of Chinese writing, this collection covers a diverse range of genres, from fiction, poetry and drama to folk stories, letters and travelogues. The topical arrangement of the selections brings out distinctive characteristics of this vast canon. see all copies from $8.90! new only from $18.48! \| SVS
6	AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India more books like this by Negar Akhavi (Editor), Prashant Panjiar (Photographer), Amartya Sen (Foreword by) add to wishlist In this groundbreaking anthology, 16 renowned writers tell the hidden story of the AIDS crisis, illuminating the complex nature of one of the major problems facing the developing world. "AIDS Sutra" is produced in collaboration with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. see all copies from $3.35! new only from $7.03! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 more books like this by Professor Haruo Shirane (Editor) add to wishlist This is the first anthology ever devoted to early modern Japanese literature, spanning the period from 1600 to 1900, known variously as the Edo or the Tokugawa, one of the most creative epochs of Japanese culture. This anthology, which will be of vital interest to anyone involved in this era, includes not only fiction, poetry, and drama, but also ... see all copies from $9.90! new only from $15.95! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Just Living: Poems and Prose by the Japanese Monk Tonna more books like this by Ton'a, Professor Steven D Carter (Translator) add to wishlist A selection of writings by Tonna (1289-1372), a medieval Buddhist poet-monk, very little of whose work has been translated before. Tonna was regarded as the leading Nijo poet of his day and was known as one of the Four Deva Kings of the Waka. He received the honour of having his poems included in the imperial anthology in 1359 and was later asked ... see all copies from $3.40! new only from $4.98!
9	Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the Present, V: 600 B.C. to the Early Twentieth Century more books like this by Susie J Tharu (Editor), K Lalita (Editor) add to wishlist These ground-breaking collections offer 200 texts from 11 languages, never before available in English or as a collection, along with a new reading of cultural history that draws on contemporary scholarship on women and on India. This extraordinary body of literature and important documentary resource illuminates the lives of Indian women through ... see all copies from $3.79! new only from $22.88! \| first editions
10	The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature more books like this by Amit Chaudhuri (Editor) add to wishlist Chaudhuri's collection of stories and nonfiction pieces includes work by R. K. Narayan, Raja Rao, Vikram Seth, Salman Rushdie, Nirmal Verma, and others--among them Rabindrinath Tagore, India's only Nobel prizewinner. see all copies from $5.66! new only from $9.26! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Modern Japanese Lit. more books like this by Professor Donald Keene (Editor) add to wishlist Modern Japanese Literature is Donald Keene's critically acclaimed companion volume to his landmark Anthology of Japanese Literature. Now considered the standard canon of modern Japanese writing translated into English, Modern Japanese Literature includes concise introductions to the writers, as well as a historical introduction by Professor Keene. ... see all copies from $3.75! new only from $9.69! \| SVS
12 view cover	Narrow Road to the Interior more books like this by Matsuo Basho, Stephen Addiss, Ph.D. (Illustrator), Sam Hamill (Translator) add to wishlist Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) was the greatest of the Japanese haiku poets, whose genius elevated the haiku to an art form of intense spiritual beauty. The masterpiece of Basho's career, and one of the most revered classics of Japanese literature, is a diary, written in prose and haiku, of Basho's journey to the northern interior of Japan. But "Narrow ... see all copies from $3.20! new only from $6.49! \| first editions
13 view cover	Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other Writings more books like this by Matsuo Basho, Sam Hamill (Translator) add to wishlist Here is the most complete single-volume collection of writings by one of the great luminaries of Asian literature. Basho (1644-1694) elevated the haiku to an art form of utter simplicity and intense spiritual beauty, and is best known in the West as the author of The Narrow Road to the Interior, a travel diary of linked prose and haiku. This ... see all copies from $4.53! new only from $8.38! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Classical Japanese Prose: An Anthology more books like this by Helen C McCullough (Editor) add to wishlist This volume brings together in convenient form a rich selection of Japanese prose dating from the ninth to the seventeenth centuries, a period during which the pre-eminent cultural and aesthetic values were those of the Heian court. It contains 2.2 works representing all the major indigenous literary forms, either complete or in generous excerpts, ... see all copies from $4.98! new only from $39.95! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Donald Richie Reader: 50 Years of Writing on Japan more books like this by Donald Richie, Arturo Silva (Compiled by) add to wishlist No one has written more, or more artfully, about Japan and Japanese culture than Donald Richie. Richie moved to Tokyo just after World War II. And he is still there, still writing. This book is the first compilation of the best of Richie's writings on Japan, with excerpts from his critical work on film (Richie helped introduce Japanese film to the ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $12.29! \| SVS
16 view cover	The Essential Writings of B. R. Ambedkar more books like this by Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Valerian Rodrigues (Editor) add to wishlist Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891-1956) is both the towering symbol of protest against age-old and contemporary forms of exploitation in India and a scholar-sage proposing fair terms of social association. An untouchable himself, he led a resolute and adroit struggle against untouchability and attempted to reformulate the terms of nationalist ... see all copies from $14.55! new only from $18.00!
17 view cover	The Shorter Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature more books like this by Professor Victor H Mair (Editor) add to wishlist Admirers of the monumental original edition of Victor H. Mair's "Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature" have long clamoured for a shorter, more affordable version. In response, Columbia University Press now offers an abridged volume, which, like the original, includes selections of Chinese literature from the beginnings to 1919. ... see all copies from $15.45! new only from $19.28! \| SVS
18 view cover	Letters on the Wall: Offerings and Remembrances from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial more books like this by Michael Sofarelli add to wishlist Since its creation in 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial has become the most visited National Park Services site. Each year, 4.5 million people come to the Wall. Many of them leave letters or other special objects. Every night, park rangers collect and inventory these mementos--now numbering well over 90,000--and put them into government storage. ... see all copies from $5.99! new only from $15.88! \| SVS
19 view cover	The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai more books like this by Han Bangqing, Professor Eva Hung (Editor), Eileen Chang (Translator) add to wishlist Desire, virtue, courtesans (also known as sing-song girls), and the denizens of Shanghai's pleasure quarters are just some of the elements that constitute Han Bangqing's extraordinary novel of late imperial China. Han's richly textured, panoramic view of late-nineteenth-century Shanghai follows a range of characters from beautiful sing-song girls ... see all copies from $7.95! new only from $15.17! \| SVS
20	Aiiieeeee! : an anthology of Asian-American writers more books like this by Frank Chin add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
21 view cover	Read Real Japanese: All You Need to Enjoy Eight Contemporary Writers more books like this by Janet Ashby add to wishlist This is a reader for the student wishing to break through the barrier between textbook Japanese and the world of Japanese as it is actually written. It consists of eight essays written by eight living authors, which convey ideas and emotions in natural Japanese. All of the vocabulary, romanized Japanese and explanatory notes are rendered ... see all copies from $6.99! new only from $89.34!
22 view cover	Bold Words: A Century of Asian American Writing more books like this by Rajini Srikanth (Editor), Esther Yae Iwanaga (Editor) add to wishlist This anthology includes literature by American writers from China, Japan, Korea, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Philippines. see all copies from $11.95! new only from $29.21! \| SVS
23 view cover	Letters from Vietnam more books like this by Bill Adler, Jr. (Editor) add to wishlist The powerful, unadorned voices of men and women who fought--and in some cases, fell--in America's most controversial war. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.75! \| first editions \| SVS
24	The Collected Poems and Plays more books like this by Rabindranath Tagore add to wishlist see all copies from $2.95! new only from $40.16!
25 view cover	Three Generations more books like this by Sang-Seop Yom, Yu Young-Nan (Translator), Kim Chie-Sou (Afterword by) add to wishlist "Three Generations" charts the tensions in the Jo family in 1930s Japanese-occupied Seoul. Yom's keenly observant eye reveals family tensions with profound insight. His characters are so alive that if you cut the pages they might bleed. Delving deeply into each character's history and beliefs, he illuminates the diverse pressures and impulses ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $64.40! \| first editions

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