One thousand and one-second stories /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Inagaki, Taruho, 1900-1977
Format: Book
Language:English
Japanese
Published: Los Angeles, CA : Sun & Moon Press, [1998]
Series:Sun & Moon classics ; 139.
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Table of Contents:
  • One thousand and one-second stories (1923): The man who came from the moon ; On finding a star ; The rock throwing affair ; On scuffling with a shooting star ; How my harmonica was filched ; Overheard one night in the shadows of a warehouse ; The moon and a cigarette ; On brawling with Mr. Moon ; Une mémoire ; un énigme ; Une chanson d'enfants ; A fiendish chat in the moonlight ; An incident one evening ; C'est rien d'autre ; Quelque chose de noir ; On cutting a black cat's tail ; On being sent staggering ; On being sent flying ; On being pushed out ; The smoocher ; On being deceived by the mist ; The moon in his pocket ; Someone who went home sighing ; On shooting down the rain ; The moonlight moonshiners ; On going out to snatch a comet ; On eating a star ; An incident at the concert ; Tour du Chat-Noir ; Star or firecracker? ; On grappling with a gaslight ; On losing myself ; On making bread out of stars ; Did you really reach the moon? ; On being shoved down an aqueduct ; The men who hoist the moon ; The moonman ; The cocoa prank ; The oddity that passed beneath a gaslight ; Cirque de la lune ; Chevaliers de la lune ; On being dumped down a chimney ; Épisode crépusculaire ; On shooting down a black cat ; The bat house ; Avant ma promenade ; The Black Comet Club ; A friend trades places with Mr. Moon ; Someone who spoke as if he had seen it himself ; An incident on a street corner ; A holdup ; A letter from the Milky Way ; Le cérémonie du mariage ; Someone who looked a lot like me ; A midnight caller ; Someone who returned from New York ; Invités de la lune ; How I sobered up ; Un roc sur le pavement ; The black box ; "Cheers!" on a moonlit night ; The origin of a red pencil ; How three Saturns were formed ; Swallowing Mr. Moon ; On the moon turning into a triangle ; A star and some scoundrels ; Was there really a comet inside the beer bottle? ; Why did he become a smoker? ; Moonshine
  • From Soap bubble stories (1923): A chat with someone who returned from Cairo ; On being pursued ; An unpremeditated abduction ; The secret of lemonade ; Guest and host ; A book becomes enraged ; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • From Tokyo attractions that shouldn't be missed (1925): Last night on the radio ; Jack-in-the-Box cigarettes ; Café Starry Night ; The Theater of Comets presents--
  • Five tales by Taruho (1925): The gaslight incident ; A star turns into a two-sen copper coin ; Before sunrise ; The star hospital ; An object found on a hill
  • From Stories from the third hemisphere (1927): As I was about to set up my stand for the night ; One night at a hotel ; On being attacked by a beetle ; The mansion where laughter is prohibited ; One disappearance after another ; On shooting a star ; Crying in their beer ; A dose of speed ; The night that burst into flames
  • From The collected poetry of Taruho: Two evenings (1929) ; The palace of the dogs (1935) ; Pietov (1935) ; A den of rabbits (1936).