吾輩は猫である
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Written over the course of 1904 through 1906, Soseki's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the follies of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him. The New Yorker called it "a nonchalant string of anecdotes and wisecracks, told by a fellow who doesn't have a name, and has never caught a mouse, and isn't much good for anything except watching human beings in action ..."
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- Fiction
- Fiction, general
- Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Japan, fiction
- General
- Poetry
- Single Author
- Modern fiction
- Literary Criticism
- Japanese Novel And Short Story
- Fiction - General
- Japanese
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Edition2011 · Lulu Press, Inc.
- Language
- Japanese
- EAN-13
- 9781105065804
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External search linksEdition1985 · Kōdansha
- Language
- Japanese
- ISBN-10
- 4061471821, 406147183X
- EAN-13
- 9784061471825, 9784061471832
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External search linksEdition1997 · Kinnoseisha
- Extent
- 313 pages
- Language
- Japanese
- ISBN-10
- 4323008031
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External search linksEdition1996 · Kinnosiesha
- Extent
- 315 pages
- Language
- Japanese
- ISBN-10
- 4323008023
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External search linksEdition1965 · Kaiseisha
- Extent
- 314 pages
- Language
- Japanese
- ISBN-10
- 4038011909, 403801200X
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External search linksEdition1988 · Kōdansha
- Language
- Japanese
- ISBN-10
- 4061882775, 4061882783
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External search linksEdition1972 · C.E. Tuttle Co.
- Language
- English, Japanese
- ISBN-10
- 0804810346
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External search linksEdition1971 · Owen
- Extent
- 431 pages
- Language
- English, Japanese
- ISBN-10
- 0720603218
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