Oh the cruelty of time that destroys all thingsBeguiling strange and hairraising tales from early 20th century Japan Nagais Behind the Prison Unos Closet LLB and Akutagawas deeply macabre General Kim.Penguin Modern fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson essays radical and inspiring poems moving and disturbing stories surreal and fabulous taking us from the deep South to modern Japan New Yorks underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.