Novel

Botchan

by Natsume Sōseki

A hot-headed young man from Tokyo takes a post teaching mathematics at a country school on Shikoku, where his pupils torment him and his colleagues outmanoeuvre him. Natsume Sōseki wrote it in 1906, out of his own year as a teacher in Matsuyama. It is still one of the most widely read novels in Japan.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 3 hr 15 min

Where to find it

The Lost Property Office, down the book lift in the west wing

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #8868. In the public domain in the United States.