Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Contributor(s): Mishima, Yukio (Author), Estate of Ivan Morris (Translator)

ISBN: 9780679752707

Publisher: Vintage

Binding Types:

Paperback

$18.00

Digicover (1-4 copies)

$30.95 (Final Price)

Readerbound (5-99 copies)

$29.75 (100+ copies: $29.00)

List/retail price:

$18.00

Pub Date: October 4, 1994

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 94017825

Lexile Code: 1040

Features: Illustrated, Price on Product

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.62" H x 8.01" L x 5.22" W ( 0.53 lbs) 288 pages

BISAC Categories:

Fiction | Literary | Historical | General | Coming of Age

Series: Vintage International

Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000070918 ( Temple of the Golden Pavilion)

Reading level: 8.00

Interest level: UG

Point value: 17.0

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: A hopeless stutterer, taunted by his schoolmates, Mizoguchi feels utterly alone until he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto. But he quickly becomes obsessed with the temple's beauty, and cannot live in peace as long as it exists.

Review Quotes: "Established Mishima's claim as one of the outstanding writers of the world." --The New York Times

"Beautifully translated.... Mishima re-erects Kyoto, plain and mountain, monastery, temple, town, as Victor Hugo made Paris out of Notre Dame." --The Nation

"An amazing literary feat in its minute delineation of a neurotic personality." --Chicago Tribune

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