And Then

Natsume Sōseki · 1909 CE · Novel · Japanese · Modernist

Daisuke is thirty, lives on his father's money, reads a great deal, and has decided that work done for wages is dishonest and that he will not do any. Three years ago he handed the woman he wanted to a friend who is now ill and broke; when the couple come back to Tokyo he begins calling on her. Sōseki's study of what a private conscience costs when somebody else is paying the household bills.

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• companion to ↑ Sanshirō
  Natsume Sōseki · 1908 CE · Novel
• ↓ The Gate
  Natsume Sōseki · 1910 CE · Novel — companion to this

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