I Am A Cat. Natsume Soseki
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Название: I Am A Cat

Автор: Natsume Soseki

Издательство: Ingram

Жанр: Языкознание

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isbn: 9781462901753

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      Published by Tuttle Publishing, an imprint of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd. Originally published in three volumes by Tuttle Publishing in 1972 (Vol. I), 1979 (Vol. II), and 1986 (Vol. III). Volume I was originally published in Japan by the Asahi Shimbun Publishing Company in the Japan Quarterly, Vol. XVII, No. 4, and Vol. XVIII, Nos. 1 and 2. Chapter I of Volume II was originally published in Japan by the Asahi Shimbun Publishing Company in the Japan Quarterly, Vol. XII, No. 4.

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      Copyright © 1972, 1979, 1986, 2002 (compilation) by Aiko Ito and Graeme Wilson

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      Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2002100535

      ISBN 978-0-8048-3265-6

       ISBN 978-1-4629-0175-3 (ebook)

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      Contents

       Copyright

       Introduction

       Volume One

       Chapter I

       Chapter II

       Chapter III

       Volume Two

       Chapter I

       Chapter II

       Chapter III

       Chapter IV

       Volume Three

       Chapter I

       Chapter II

       Chapter III

       Chapter IV

      INTRODUCTION

      SŌSEKI NATSUME is the pen name of Kin’nosuke Natsume (1867-1916), the eighth and youngest son of a family of minor town-gentry. The family’s hereditary occupation as ward-chiefs in Tokyo under the Tokugawa shogunate disappeared with the Meiji Restoration of 1868, and thus they fell upon hard times, yet Sōseki received the compulsory modern education, both primary and at middle school level, which had been introduced in 1872.

      In his mid-teens he switched to a private school for Chinese studies and, though upper-class tradition regarded literature as no more than a civilized diversion, he began to toy with the idea of adopting it СКАЧАТЬ