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This page introduces collection of short stories and short short stories.
Short Short Stories by Hoshi Shinichi
星新一 (1926-1997) is a novelist and science ficgtion writer; he is particularly famous for writing more than 1,000 "short short" stories. One of the most well-know story, 『ボッコちゃん』 , has been used for reading text at KU. His writing style tends to avoid implications to particular events, people or nations. Thus, the story can be read and accepted, irrespective of the time and place.
Short Stories Translated by Murakami Haruki
村上春樹 (1949-) is a popular contemporary Japanese novelist who also have been actively translating American literature into Japanese. The list below are a few examples of short stories Murakami has translated.
Sudden Fiction by Call Number: PS648.S5 S8162 1994Publication Date: 1994Includes 70 American short short stories by Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, Ray Bradbury, and others.
Sample text is taken from page 16.
英雄を謳うまい(えいゆうをうたうまい) by Call Number: PS3553.A7894 N616 2008Publication Date: 2008Translation of Raymond Carver's short stories, essays, poems, reviews, etc.
Sample text is taken from page 38.
冬の夢 by Call Number: PS3511.I9 W56163 2011Publication Date: 2011This book include five stories by Scott Fitzgerald who is considered as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. He was also a member of the "Lost Generation" of 20s. The title piece is "Winter Dreams," considered as his "finest" story.
Sample text is taken from page 11.
10分読書シリーズ
おもしろいお話10分読書小学5年生Call Number: PL753 .O465 2011Publication Date: 2011Sample text is taken from page 4.
おもしろいお話10分読書小学6年生Call Number: PL753 .O466 2011Publication Date: 2011Sample text is taken from page 4.
10分で読める名作シリーズ
10分で読める名作 四年生 by Call Number: PL753 .A564 2007Publication Date: 2007Sample text is taken from page 6.
10分で読める名作 五年生 by Call Number: PL753 .A565 2007Publication Date: 2007Sample text is taken from page 12.
10分で読める名作 六年生 by Call Number: PL753 .A566 2007Publication Date: 2007Sample text is taken from page 16.
Other Short Stories
Anthologies: 短篇ベストコレクションシリーズ
短篇ベストコレクション: 現代の小說2006 by Call Number: PL775 .T362 2006Publication Date: 2006Sample text is taken from page 8.
短篇ベストコレクション:現代の小說 2009 by Call Number: PL775 .T362 2009Publication Date: 2009Sample text is taken from page 6.
