Book pages

= Books =

No Longer Human
"A novella by Osamu Dazai featuring a guilt-ridden and self-conscious protagonist eventually led to ruin by his afflictions. A month after its completion, Dazai committed suicide, drowning himself in the Tarnagawa Aqueduct."

Readable pages include:

Page 9: "Mine has been a life of such shame."

Page 100: "Society? Don't you mean yourself?"

Page 124: "What's the antonym of crime?"

Page 147: "No longer human."

Demian
"A novel by Herman Hesse in which protagonist Emil Sinclair, motivated by his mysterious friend Max Demian and his mother, engages in self-discovery. This novel stems from from Hesse's introduction to the philosophy of Carl Jung."

Readable pages include:

Page 8: "I have always been a seeker."

Page 57: "Further torments and slavery."

Page 136: "Struggling out of the egg."

Page 193: "Only yourself, only your own fate."

The Moon Over The Mountain
"A novella by Atsushi Nakajima in which a failed poet, Li Zheng, comes to terms with his transformation into a cognizant tiger. Unlike the fable upon which it is based, the novella focuses on Zheng's internal distress at his transformation."

Readable pages include:

Page 8: "This low rank chafed his pride."

Page 13: "No one understands this feeling."

Page 16: "My cowardly pride and haughty shame."

Page 18: "I've degraded into such a beast."

The Metamorphosis
"A novella by Franz Kafka. Upon waking, Gregor Samsa finds himself metamorphosed into a dreadful insect, a "monstrous vermin." Kafka's three novels (The Missing Man, The Trial, The Castle) remain incomplete."

Readable pages include:

Page 5: Transformed into a horrible vermin.

Page 32: In a difficult situation.

Page 65: Lack of human communication.

Page 93: So thoughtless about the others.

Strait is the Gate
"A novel by André Gide featuring protagonist Jerome, whose love interest, Alissa, abandons all worldly joy before finding from this world, altogether. Gide uses this piece to comment on the idea of self-sacrifice."

Readable pages include:

Page 9: My sensibility-- over-stimulated.

Page 26: Enter ye in at the strait gate.

Page 108: To Him I offered my trouble.

170: Holiness is an obligation.

Somokuto
Page 17: The straight road, Loneliness.

Page 22: Me-- Helpless and good for nothing.

Page 153: I search as I walk through the wind.

Page 198: I feel withered by the loneliness.

The Miner
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The Myth of Sisyphus
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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The Little Prince
Page 8: Grown-ups always need explanations.

Page 39: Somewhere, my flower is there.

Page 62: The grown-ups are very odd.

Page 108: What is essential is invisible.

The Works of Edgar Allen Poe
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Dogra Magra
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