Donald Keene

86 books

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

The Paper Door and Other Stories

Naoya Shiga, Lane Dunlop, Donald Keene

173 pages • 1987

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

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

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

544 pages • paperback • 2000

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

The Setting Sun

Osamu Dazai

175 pages • paperback • 1947

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 • hardcover • 1958

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 • paperback • 1998

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 • hardcover • 1980

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 • paperback • 1993

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 • 1989

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 • 1970

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 • hardcover

nonfiction biography poetry informative reflective slow-paced