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THE COMPLETE WORKS OF BERNARD MALAMUD	Under the Direction of Shoji Goto 210x148mm, half cloth binding, 280 pages in each 12vols. / Price 95,000 Yen　ISBN978-4-653-03590-9
Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), was one of the most prominent contemporary American novelists who received both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his literary achievements. Most of whose books focus on the Jewish experience in America. The Fixer (1966), for which Malamud received the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, is a poignant novel (based on a true story) of the suffering of a Russian Jewish workman sentenced unjustly to prison. He demonstrates how human beings can come through suffering to an affi rmative view of life, mixing an abiding compassion for Jewish life with subtle touches of wry humor. To be completed in twelve volumes, this work offers the first comprehensive grasp of Malamud’s literature.	Vol.1 The Natural (1952) Vol.2 The Assistant (1957) Vol.3 A New Life (1961) Vol.4 The Fixer (1966) Vol.5 Pictures of Fidelman : An Exhibition (1969) Vol.6 The Tenants (1971) Vol.7 Dubin’s Lives (1979) Vol.8 God’s Grace (1982) Vol.9 The Magic Barrel (1958) Vol.10 Idiots First (1963) Vol.11 Rembrandt’s Hat (1973) Vol.12 The People and Uncollected Stories (1989) God’s Wrath (1972)/The Model (1983) ＊extracted from “The Stories of Bernard Malamud” (1983) Steady Customer (1943) ＊extracted from “The Complete Stories” (1997)

THE COMPLETE NOVELS OF ROBERT PENN WARREN	Edited by Koichi Nakamura 210x148mm, half cloth binding, 420 pages in each 10vols. / Price 116,000 Yen　ISBN978-4-653-03289-2
Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) was better known as a novelist and received tremendous recognition for “All the King’s Men”, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1947, though regarded as one of the best poets of his generation. (He was appointed the fi rst U.S. Poet Laureate in 1985.) As his southern background was exchanged for a later life spent in New England, with homes in Connecticut and Vermont, Warren’s youthful conservatism eventually gave way to more liberal views, aesthetically and socially. This ten-volume collection contains all of his long novels, reprinted from its fi rst edition. This provides the comprehensive grasp of Warren’s novels.	Vol.1 Night Rider (1939) Vol.2 At Heaven’s Gate (1943) Vol.3 All the King’s Men (1946) Vol.4 World Enough and Time: A Romantic Novel (1950) Vol.5 Band of Angels (1955) Vol.6 The Cave (1959) Vol.7 Wilderness: A Tale of the Civil War (1961) Vol.8 Flood :A Romance of Our Time (1964) Vol.9 Meet Me in the Green Glen (1971) Vol.10 A Place to Come To (1977)

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF FLANNERY O’CONNOR	Edited by Yoshie Itabashi and Miyoko Sasaki 210x148mm(Vol.11:253x202mm), half cloth binding, 294 pages in each 11vols. / Price 126,214 Yen　ISBN978-4-653-02412-5
O’Connor, (Mary) Flannery (1925-1964), American novelist, whose novels and short stories focusing on humanity's spiritual deformity and fl ight from redemption earned her a unique place in 20th-century American fiction. A basic theme of her work is the individual's vain attempt to escape the grace of God, and her work is profoundly and pervasively religious. This is the fi rst complete works to demonstrate the quality and breadth of O'Connor's work. This contains a vast amount of unpublished works, textual variants, letters, interviews, and photos which shed new light on her life and aims as a novelist.	Vol.1 Wise Blood (1952) Vol.2 A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories (1955) Vol.3 The Violent Bear It Away (1960) Vol.4 Everything That Rises Must Converge (1965) Vol.5 Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose (1969) Vol.6 The Presence of Grace and Other Book Reviews (1983) Vol.7 The Habit of Being: Letters (1979) Vol.8 The Correspondence of Flannery O'Connor and the Brainard Cheneys (1986) Vol.9 More Stories and Prose Writings: Selections from The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor (1971) Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works (1988) The Added Dimension: The Art and Mind of Flannery O'Connor (1966) Vol.10 Uncollected Writings and Statements Stories/Essay/Statements/Letters and Reminiscences Vol.11 Miscellanea　Talks/Art Works/Flannery O'Connor's Country

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF EDITH WHARTON	Edited by Yoshie Itabashi and Miyoko Sasaki 210x148mm, half cloth binding, 590 pages in each 26vols. / SOLD ISBN978-4-653-01777-6
Edith Wharton (1862-1937), is an American novelist, born in a socially elect family in New York City, noted for her subtle, ironic, and superbly crafted fi ctional studies of New York society at the turn of the 20th cent. Recreating the atmosphere of the unadventurous, ceremonious upper-class society of New York, she depicts in these and other works the cruelty of social convention, the changing fashions in morality, and the conflicts that arise between money values and moral values. Wharton is also the author of travel books, literary criticism, and poetry. To be completed in twenty-six volumes, arranged in chronological order, this collection represents the first comprehensive grasp of Wharton’s Literature. Short stories, poems, essays, critics included in the last volume appear in print (in book form) for the first time.	Vol.1 Verses (1878)/The Decoration of Houses (with Ogden Codman,Jr) (1897)/The Greater Inclination (1899) Vol.2 The Touchstone (1900)/Crucial Instances (1901) Vol.3 The Valley of Decision (1902) Vol.4 Sanctuary (1903)/The Descent of Man, and Other Stories (1904) Vol.5 Italian Villas and Their Gardens (1904)/Italian Backgrounds (1905) Vol.6 The House of Mirth (1905)/Madame de Treymes (1907) Vol.7 The Fruit of the Tree (1907) Vol.8 A Motor-Flight through France (1908)/The Hermit and the Wild Woman, and Other Stories (1908) Vol.9 Artemis to Actaeon, and Other Verse (1909)/Tales of Men and Ghosts (1910) Vol.10 Ethan Frome (1911)/The Reef (1912) Vol.11 The Custom of the Country (1913) Vol.12 Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort (1915)/Xingu, and Other Stories (1916) Vol.13 Summer (1917)/The Marne (1918) Vol.14 French Ways and Their Meaning (1919)/The Age of Innocence (1920) Vol.15 In Morocco (1920)/The Glimpses of the Moon(1922) Vol.16 A Son at the Front (1923) Vol.17 Old New York: False Dawn, The Old Maid, The Spark, New Year’s Day (1924) Vol.18 The Mother’s Recompense (1925)/The Writing of Fiction (1925) Vol.19 Here and Beyond (1926)/Twelve Poems (1926) Vol.20 Twilight Sleep (1927)/The Children (1928) Vol.21 Hudson River Bracketed (1929)/Certain People (1930) Vol.22 The God’s Arrive (1932)/Human Nature (1933) Vol.23 A Backward Glance (1934)/The World Over (1936) Vol.24 Ghosts (1937)/The Buccaneers (1938) Vol.25 The Joy of Living (Es lebe das Leben) by Hermann Sudermann. Translated by Edith Wharton (1902) The Book of the Homeless Edited by Edith Wharton (1916) Eternal Passion in English Poetry Selected by Edith Wharton & R.Norton (1939) Vol.26 Short Stories / Reviews and Articles

THE SELECTED WORKS OF JOYCE CAROL OATES	Edited by Keiko Beppu 210x148mm, half cloth binding, 480 pages in each 12vols. / Price 130,000 Yen　ISBN978-4-653-03500-8
Joyce Carol Oates(1938- ) is one of the most prominent American contemporary novelists, known for the descriptive violence in her portrayals of American life. She won the National Book Award in 1970. Oates wrote in many genres, but most of her books have strong elements of naturalism, a literary style emphasizing an objective presentation of life. She writes about contemporary American life, which she sees as often defi ned by violence. She is particularly concerned with the connection between violence and love. This reprints fi rst editions with the exception of her critical work “On Boxing”. This twelve-volume selection explores the essense of Oates’s literature.	Vol.1 With Shuddering Fall (1964)/Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories (1966) Vol.2 A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967) Vol.3 them (1969) Vol.4 The Wheel of Love and Other Stories (1970) Vol.5 Wonderland (1971) Vol.6 Marriages and Infi delities (1972) Vol.7 Do With Me What You Will (1973) Vol.8 Angel of Light (1981) Vol.9 Marya: A Life (1986) Vol.10 American Appetites (1989) Vol.11 Black Water (1992) foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (1993) Vol.12 New Heaven, New Earth: The Visionary Experience in Literature (1978)/On Boxing (1994)

THE WORKS OF MARGARET DRABBLE	Edited by Shizuko Kawamoto and Yukako Suga 210x148mm, half cloth binding, 270 pages in each 8vols. / Price 70,000 Yen　ISBN978-4-653-03609-8
Margaret Drabble (1939- ) is one of the most prominent British female novelists after World War 2. Infl uenced by the writings of British novelist Arnold Bennett and French novelist Simone de Beauvoir, her novels assess the personal and moral dilemmas contemporary women face in reconciling the claims of career, marriage, and motherhood. This eight-volume collection, facsimile reprint of the first edition, represents her eight early works. It gives the readers the chance of seeing Drabble’s realistic vision, in particular, of an England split between traditional values and contemporary.	Vol.1 A Summer Bird-Cage (1963) Vol.2 The Garrick Year (1964) Vol.3 The Millstone (1965) Vol.4 Jerusalem the Golden (1967) Vol.5 The Waterfall (1969) Vol.6 The Needle’s Eye (1972) Vol.7 The Realms of Gold (1975) Vol.8 The Middle Ground (1980)

THE COLLECTED WORKS OF GEORGE MOORE 《The Carra Edition》	210x148mm, half cloth binding, 340 pages in each, 19 colored front pieces 22vols. /SOLD ISBN978-4-653-00792-0
George Moore(1852-1933) was an English novelist. Inspired by Zola, Flaubert, Turgenev, and the 19th-century French realists, he started his career as a writer and introduced naturalism into the Victorian novel. This collection reprints the Carra Edition, which was the private press edition by Moore himself and published in 1922-1924. “Ulick and Soracha”, which was not included in the Carra Edition, is included in this collected works. To be completed in twenty-two volumes, this collection offers the fi rst comprehensive grasp of Moore’s Literature.	Vol.1 Lewis Seymour and Some Women (1922) Vol.2 A Mummer’s wife (1922) Vol.3 Muslin (1922) Vol.4 Spring Days (1922) Vol.5 Esther Waters (1922) Vol.6 Evelyn Innes (1923) Vol.7 Sister Teresa (1923) Vol.8 The Untilled Field & The Lake (1923) Vol.9 Confessions of a Young Man: Avowals (1923) Vol.10 Memoirs of My Dead Life (1923) Vol.11 Hail and Farewell AVE (1923) Vol.12 Hail and Farewell SALVE (1923) Vol.13 Hail and Farewell VALE (1923) Vol.14 A Story-Teller’s Holiday (1923) Vol.15 Heloise and Abelard Ⅰ (1923) Vol.16 Heloise and Abelard Ⅱ (1923) Vol.17 The Brook Kerith. A Syrian Story (1923) Vol.18 In Single Strictness (1923) Vol.19 Modern Painting (1923) Vol.20 Conversations in Ebury Street (1924) Vol.21 Daphnis and Chloe/Perronik the Fool (1924) Additional Volume　Ulick and Soracha (1926)

TRANSITION From Vol.1(1927) to Vol.27(1938) Originally published by Shakespeare and Co., Paris & others	210x148mm, half cloth binding, 6232 pages With a Japanese commentary by Kenzo Suzuki 10vols. / Price 135,922 Yen　ISBN978-4-653-03099-7 [27 issues bound in 10 vols.]
Transition is an international avant-garde literary journal published by Eugene Jolas, known as an editor of the first publisher of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, and Elliot Paul, between 1927 and 1938. A number of perimental literary works are contributed. The original cover illustrations are made by modern masters such as Picasso. All the original issues including all the colored illustrations are reprinted in actual size. This collection provides the reader the rare chance of examining the essence of this monumental avant-garde works.	Contributors (writers and artists) Aragon, Louis Beckett, Samuel Benn, Gottfried Bowles, Paul Breton, Andre Crane, Hart Desnos, Robert Gide, Andre Stein, Gertrude Thomas, Dylan Trakl, Georg Tzara, Tristan Ungaretti, Giuseppe Williams,William Carlos -------------------- Braque, Georges Chirico, Giorgio de Ernst, Max Kandinsky, Wassily Klee, Paul Matisse, Henri Miro, Joan Ray, Man Picasso, Pablo　etc.

AMERICAN FICTION BETWEEN THE WARS 2nd Series	Edited by Kichinosuke Ohashi 210x148mm, half cloth binding, 320 pages in each 10vols. / Price 85,000 Yen　ISBN978-4-653-02181-0
Ten fictions collected in those volumes are originally published in 1920s and 30s, during the period between the First and the Second World War. Including works’ writers are lesser-known but important and this anthology reveals how these writers infl uenced contemporary American literature.	Vol.1 Carl Sandburg: Rootabaga Stories (1922) Vol.2 Thomas Wolfe: Look Homeward, Angel (1929) Vol.3 Micheal Gold: Jews Without Money (1930) Vol.4 James T. Farrell: Young Lonigan (1932) Vol.5 Nathanael West: Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) Vol.6 William Saroyan: The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934) Vol.7 Thornton Wilder: Heaven’s My Destination(1935) Vol.8 Horace McCoy: They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1935) Vol.9 Walter Van Tilburg Clark: The Ox-Bow Incident (1940) Vol.10 Richard Wright: Native Son (1940)