Tales grotesque and curious (Registro nro. 118825)
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| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PL |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1892-1927 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Tales grotesque and curious |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2026 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
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| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2026-03-04 |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Tobacco and the devil -- The nose -- The handkerchief -- Rashōmon -- Lice -- The spider's thread -- The wine worm -- The badger -- The ball -- The pipe -- Mōri Sensei. |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Hendrik Kaiber and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Tales grotesque and curious by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. The volume gathers darkly comic fables, historical reimaginings, and moral parables that probe vanity, faith, survival, and hypocrisy, often ending in ironic reversals. Its cast ranges from monks, professors, and servants to thieves and devils, moving between medieval Kyoto, early modern Japan, and China with a refined yet unsettling tone.<br/><br/>The opening of the collection begins with a translator’s introduction that sketches Akutagawa’s life in Tokyo, his meticulous craft, major influences, recurring historical materials, and the reception of his work, then transitions into the stories. Tobacco and the Devil tells how a devil masquerading with Francis Xavier sows tobacco in Japan and loses a wager to a clever cattle dealer; The Nose follows a priest whose grotesquely long nose is “cured,” only to make him more miserable until it returns. In The Handkerchief, a sober-minded professor lauds stoic virtue when a bereaved mother visits, then later questions whether such composure is moral strength or mere mannerism. Rashōmon shows a desperate servant who, after catching an old hag plucking hair from corpses to make wigs, embraces theft himself. Lice portrays cramped samurai boats riddled with vermin, sparking a comic-philosophical feud over whether to nurture, kill, or even eat the pests. The Spider’s Thread offers a Buddhist parable in which a damned robber’s selfishness snaps his one chance at salvation. The Wine Worm opens on a scorching Chinese threshing floor with a bound wine-lover, a foreign priest, and a Confucian scholar, then begins recounting how the notorious drinker met the famed healer—before the excerpt breaks off. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | Japan: The Hokuseido Press, 1930 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Japan -- Social life and customs -- Fiction |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Short stories, Japanese -- Translations into English |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Shaw, Glenn W. |
| Fuller form of name | (Glenn William), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1886-1961 |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Tales_Grotesque_and_Curious/np8ac_JiSV4C?hl=en">https://www.google.com/books/edition/Tales_Grotesque_and_Curious/np8ac_JiSV4C?hl=en</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78105">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78105</a> |
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