# Tales grotesque and curious

Author: Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke, 1892-1927; Shaw, Glenn W. (Glenn William), 1886-1961 [Translator]

Genre: Japan -- Social life and customs -- Fiction

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78105

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Tales+grotesque+and+curious+Akutagawa&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Akutagawa Ryūnosuke was born in Tōkyō on the first day of March, 1892, and drank poison and died in Tōkyō early on the morning of July 24, 1927. Of the thirty-five years of his life, lived almost entirely in that same Tōkyō, he spent some eighteen mostly in school as a young prodigy and some eleven mostly at his desk as the fashioner and polisher of perhaps 200 over-wrought short stories, of which this book contains eleven, translated into English as nearly word for word as possible.

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tales-grotesque-and-curious-78105/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tales-grotesque-and-curious-78105/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tales-grotesque-and-curious-78105/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tales-grotesque-and-curious-78105/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tales-grotesque-and-curious-78105/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tales-grotesque-and-curious-78105/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tales-grotesque-and-curious-78105/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tales-grotesque-and-curious-78105/chapters/8/index.md)