Japanese Warriors, Rogues and Beauties "The Proust in all of

"The Proust in all of us will relish the profiles of ghosts like Le Pavillon and the Forum of the Twelve Caesars in New York

a young American sharpshooter ventures into no man's land each night to be ready by daybreak for the grim business of slaying record numbers of enemies

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Japanese Warriors, Rogues and Beauties "The Proust in all ofHeroes, villains, and damsels in distress abound in these richly colored, dramatic images from the Japanese equivalent of dime store novels. These illustrations were selected from woodblock printed covers and frontispiece illustrations from 64 popular books published in Osaka from 1898 through 1903. They include samurai and strong men, demons and detectives, courtesans, sumo wrestlers, and other vivid characters in scenarios ranging from romantic to