From the author of the books "Conversation with the God of wanderings" and "In the land of the Water". The series "Neoclassic (The Best)" — only the best authors and their works in high-quality collectible design.Ryunoske Akutagawa's work enjoys well-deserved popularity both in our country and around the world. During his short life, he managed to write about one and a half hundred novels and short stories that forever changed the further development of Japanese literature, and this edition includes the best of the author's stories. Some of them take place in medieval Japan, others, which are revered even higher in the writer's homeland — against the background of modern Japan at the beginning of the XX century. And the legendary stories "Rasemon Gate" and "In the Thicket" eventually became the basis for the legendary film "Rasemon" by Akira Kurosawa, the Oscar winner in the nomination "Best Foreign Film".