Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

Written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa - one of Japan's foremost stylists and a modernist master whose short stories are marked by imagery, cynicism, beauty, and wild humour. His other works include: 'Rashomon'; 'In a Bamboo Grove'; 'The Nose'; 'O-Gin'; 'Loyalty'; 'Death Register'; 'The Life of a Stupid Man'; and 'Spinning Gears'.