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The Wild Geese: The Modern Classic That Was the Source for the Highly Acclaimed
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The Wild Geese: The Modern Classic That Was the Source for the Highly Acclaimed Film, 'The Mistriss' Paperback - 2009

by Ogai Mori; Sanford Goldstein (Translator)

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In The Wild Geese, prominent Japanese novelist Ogai Mori offers a poignant story of unfulfilled love. The young heroine, Otama, is forced by poverty to become a moneylender's mistress. Her dawning consciousness of her predicament brings the novel to a touching climax.

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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.

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THIS STORY happened long ago, but by chance I remember that it occurred in 1880, the thirteenth year of Emperor Meiji's reign.

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  • Title The Wild Geese: The Modern Classic That Was the Source for the Highly Acclaimed Film, 'The Mistriss'
  • Author Ogai Mori; Sanford Goldstein (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Tuttle Publishing
  • Publication date 2009-07-10
  • Features Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9784805308844 / 4805308842
  • Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.1 x 0.4 in (20.32 x 12.95 x 1.02 cm)
  • Reading level 970
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2021949515
  • Dewey Decimal Code 895.63

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"The Wild Geese is a spare, yet intricate, read. The narrative moves quickly, and the characters are developed in a way that successfully reveals their passiveness and internal weaknesses. It is a good book that clearly has paved the path for later writers, and for those seeking the early inspiration for the great Japanese Masters that filled the 20th Century, Ogai Mori is not a writer to overlook."—BlogCritics.com

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Ogai Mori (1862-1922) stands in the foremost rank of modern Japanese novelists. His professional success as an army surgeon was outstripped by his even more brilliant ascent in the literary world of the Meiji and Taisho eras. His work is characterized by a strong humanistic element, a romantic quality effectively tempered by realism, and a lucid style that often rises to lyric intensity as in the closing passages of The Wild Geese. Written in 1913, The Wild Geese enjoyed such success in Japan that it was made into a film, shown abroad as The Mistress.

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