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The History and Practice of Magic traces the development of magical beliefs and occult practices across cultures and centuries

World within walls: Japanese literature of the pre-modern era, 1600-1867 Classic Literature & Fiction Cover shows moderate shelf wearWorld Within Walls is the first of a projected four volume study of Japanese literature, Donald Keene's major work, indeed an achievement probably beyond any other Western author. It covers the middle period when Japanese literature began to reach a popular public, as opposed to the elite aristocratic audience it had known previously. The book is broken into the two main divisions of the so called "pre modern" era, from 1600 to 1770, and 1770 to 1867,