| The Wild Geese: The Modern Classic That Was the Source for the Highly Acclaimed Film, 'The Mistriss' Contributor(s): Mori, Ogai (Author), Goldstein, Sanford (Translator), Ochiai, Kingo (Translator) |
|
 |
ISBN: 4805308842 ISBN-13: 9784805308844 Publisher: Tuttle Publishing OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2009 Annotation: First published in serial form, The Wild Geese is the story of unfulfilled love set against a background of social change. Ogai portrays with compassion and beauty the drama of a girl forced by poverty to become a moneylender's mistress. Around her, in scenes of humor and pathos, move the skillfully drawn characters of her weak-willed father, her lover and his suspicious wife, and a handsome student who is both the object of her desire and the symbol of her rescue. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Romance - Historical - General |
| Dewey: 895.63 |
| Lexile Measure: 970 |
| Series: Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.1" W x 8" (0.35 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This modern classic, written in 1913, was the source for the highly acclaimed film, The Mistress In The Wild Geese, prominent Japanese novelist Ogai Mori offers a poignant story of unfulfilled love, set against the background of the dizzying social change accompanying the fall of the Meiji regime. The young heroine, Otama, is forced by poverty to become a moneylender's mistress. She is surrounded by skillfully-drawn characters--her weak-willed father, her virile and calculating lover (and his suspicious wife), and the handsome student who is both the object of her desire and the symbol of her rescue--as well as a colorful procession of Meiji era figures--geisha, students, entertainers, unscrupulous matchmakers, shopkeepers, and greedy landladies. Like those around her, and like the wild geese of the titles, Otama yearns for the freedom of flight. Her dawning consciousness of her predicament brings the novel to a touching climax. |