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The nobility of failure
Ivan I. Morris
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An edition of The nobility of failure (1975)

The nobility of failure

tragic heroes in the history of Japan

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Brief histories of various heroes from Japanese History who were unsuccessful in their lives but who in their lives and particularly their deaths fulfilled Japanese ideals of behaviour and who therefore continue to be remembered loved and revered.

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Publisher
Noonday Press, Farrar Straus Giroux
Language
English
Pages
500

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Subjects
Heroes, Biography, Japan, history, Heroes--japan, Ds834 .m64, 952/.00992 b
People
Kamikaze pilots
Places
Japan

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The nobility of failure: tragic heroes in the history of Japan
1994, Noonday Press, Farrar Straus Giroux
in English
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Cover of: The nobility of failure
The nobility of failure: tragic heroes in the history of Japan
1976, New American Library
in English
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Cover of: The nobility of failure
The nobility of failure: tragic heroes in the history of Japan
1975, Secker and Warburg, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
in English
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The nobility of failure: tragic heroes in the history of Japan
1975, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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Edition Notes

Originally published: New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1975.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 485-490) and index.

Published in
New York
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
952/.00992, B
Library of Congress
DS834 .M64 1994, DS834 .M64

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiii, 500 p. :
Number of pages
500

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22949815M
ISBN 10
0374521204
OCLC/WorldCat
19718067
Library Thing
256679
Goodreads
573601

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