The N? Plays of Japan

New York: Grove Press, (1957).

Price: $20.00

Softcover. Later printing. Trade paperback. Letters by Oswald Sickett. Rubbing, marks, and light edgewear thus near fine.

Item #406387
ISBN: 039417206X

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Item #406387 The N? Plays of Japan. Arthur WALEY.

Arthur Waley
birth name: Arthur Waley
born: 8/19/1889
died: 6/27/1966

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Sinologist and translator from Chinese and Japanese whose outstanding renderings of Oriental classics into English had a profound effect on such modern poets as W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound. (The family name was changed from Schloss to Waley, his mother's maiden name, at the outset of World War II.) - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore