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Description edit
Like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Botchan, a hilarious tale about a young man's rebellion against "the system" in a country school, is a classic. Among both young and old in Japan, it has enjoyed a timeless popularity, making it, in the words of Donald Keene, "probably the most widely... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Botchan: The protagonist
- Mr. Koga (Mr. Green Squash): English teacher
- Madonna: The town beauty.
- Kiyo: Botchan's servant
- Mr. Hotta (Porcupine): Mathematics teacher
- Badger / Tanuki: School principle
- Noda (The Clown): Art teacher
- Red Shirt: The Dean
Quotes edit
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“But being a Yedo man through and through, I cannot speak your dreadful dialect, and you'll have to wait patiently until you can understand me.”
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“Their castle town is so small an affair that an hour's sight seeing will bring you to an end of everything it contains, and as they had no other accomplishment to pride themselves upon they treated the tempura business as if it were such a great event as the Ruso-Japanese war.”
Botchan
First Sentence edit
A great loser have I been ever since a child, having a rash, daring spirit, a spirit I inherited from my ancestors.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Natsume Sōseki (Author)
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Page Count: 240
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- Dewey: 813
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