Royall Tyler

• Nov-1992
• / General Fiction
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Japanese nõ theatre or the drama of 'perfected art' flourished in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries largely through the genius of the dramatist Zeami. An intricate fusion of music, dance, mask, costume and language, the dramas address many subj...

• Jul-2002
• / Action Adventure
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A predecessor of both the nativist humor of Mark Twain and the exotic adventure stories of Washington Irving, Herman Melville, and Richard Dana, Royall Tyler’s The Algerine Captive is an entertaining romp through eighteenth-century society, a satir...

• Aug-2002
• / Fantasy
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Two hundred and twenty tales from medieval Japan -- tales that welcome us into a fabulous faraway world populated by saints, scoundrels, ghosts, magical healers, and a vast assortment of deities and demons. Stories of miracles, visions of hell, jokes...

• Nov-2012
• / General Fiction
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The three translations in this book complete the story told partially in the Tale of the Heike: that of the decades, crucial in Japanese history, between 1156 and 1221. They are The Tale of the Hogen Years, which treats a disastrous attempt by a depo...

• Nov-2012
• / General Fiction
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First assembled from scattered oral poems in the early 14th century, 'The Tale of the Heike' is as familiar a touchstone to the Japanese as the Bible or the Arthurian legends in the West. Royall Tyler's masterful new translation recreates the work in...