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Chita a memory of Last Island
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Lafcadio Hearn
Hearn paints a colorful portrait of life in the marshy Gulf Coast city of New Orleans, focusing on a young white girl who is adopted by a Spanish family.
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Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan
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A Japanese magic-lantern show is essentially dramatic. It is a play of which the dialogue is uttered by invisible personages, the actors and the scenery being only luminous shadows. Wherefore it is peculiarly well suited to goblinries and weirdnessess of all kinds; and plays in which ghosts figure are the favourite subject. -from "Of Ghosts and ...
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Kwaidan Stories and Studies of Strange Things
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Most of the Kwaidan, or Weird Tales, in this collection have been taken from old Japanese books, such as the Yaso-Kidan, Bukkyo-Hyakkwa-Zensho, Kokon-Chomonshu, Tama-Sudare, and Hyaku-Monogatari. Some may have had a Chinese origin: the remarkable 'Dream of Akinosuke,' for one, is certainly from a Chinese source. But the Japanese story-teller, in ...
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Kwaidan: Ghost Stories and Strange Tales of Old Japan
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Lafcadio Hearn, Yasumasa Fujita (Illustrator), Oscar Lewis (Introduction by)
During the latter half of the 19th century, American journalist Lafcadio Hearn became our nation's great interpreter of all things Japanese. His superb translation of 20 supernatural tales teems with undead samurais, man-eating goblins, and other terrifying demons. These classic ghost stories inspired the Oscar(R)-nominated 1964 film of the same ...
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Selected Writings of Lafcadio Hearn
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Lafcadio Hearn, Henry Goodman (Editor)
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The Temptation of St. Anthony
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Gustave Flaubert, Professor Lafcadio Hearn (Translator)
Fascinated for years with the life of the Egyptian anchorite known as St. Anthony (b. 250 A.D.), Flaubert spent 25 years writing his own version. His disturbing fragmented chronicle, mostly in dialogue, stresses the difficulties of the spiritual life, presenting a deeply flawed saint--bitter, greedy, and sadistic--plagued by demons both internal ...
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The life and letters of Lafcadio Hearn
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Elizabeth Bisland, Lafcadio Hearn, Bruce Rogers, Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress)
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Oriental Ghost Stories (Wordsworth Mystery & Supernatural) (Wordsworth Mystery & Supernatural)
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Lafcadio Hearn
' - and the man saw that she had no eyes or nose or mouth - and he screamed.' Lafcadio Hearn's fascinating and unsettling ghost stories are a reinterpretation of oriental legends, and folktales. They are a potent blend of weird beauty and horror. Hearn, who referred to his narratives as 'stories and studies of strange things', believed that the ...
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Kwaidan
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Seventeen supernatural tales of old Japan. Romance, samurai, ghosts, foxwomen, also three insect studies, Hearn's best. Three illustrations.
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Life and Literature
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BY LAFCADIO HEARN SELECTED AND EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOHN ERSKINE, PH. D. PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LONDbN WILLIAM HEINEMANN COPYRIGHT, 191T BY MITCHELL McDONALD PRINTED IN U. S. A. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE INTRODUCTION vii I ON READING IN RELATION TO LITERATURE i II ON THE RELATION OF LIFE AND CHARACTER TO LIT ERATURE 21 ...
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Boy Who Drew Cats and Other Japanese Fairy Tales
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Lafcadio Hearn, Y S Green (Illustrator)
Eleven engaging, excellently translated tales of talking tea kettles, a monstrous goblin-spider, miniature warriors and other fanciful creatures. 21 original illustrations by Yuko Green.
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Japan an Attempt at Interpretation
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Professor Lafcadio Hearn
Vivid descriptions of how the Japanese live, work, and think.
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Gombo Zhebes: Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs
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Lafcadio Hearn
Originally published in 1885, Gombo Zhebes is a collection of 352 Creole proverbs selected from 6 dialects. Included are selections from the Creole of French Guyana, the Creole of Haiti, the Creole of New Orleans, the Creole of Martinique, the Creole of Mauritius, and the Creole of Trinidad. The proverbs are translated into French and into English.
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The Voice of the Great Bell
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Lafcadio Hearn, Margaret Hodges (Adapted by), Ed Young (Illustrator)
A Chinese bell-maker's daughter makes a noble sacrifice so that the casting of The Great Bell for the emperor will be flawless.
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Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye.
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Clarence John Laughlin, Lafcadio Hearn, Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Inventing New Orleans: Writings of Lafcadio Hearn
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Lafcadio Hearn, S Frederick Starr (Editor)
Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) prowled the streets of New Orleans from 1877 to 1888 before moving on to a new life and global fame as a chronicler of Japan. Hearn's influence on our perceptions of New Orleans, however, has unjustly remained unknown. In ten years of serving as a correspondent and selling his writing in such periodicals as the "New ...
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Two Years in the French West Indies
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In October 1887 the writer and translator Lafcadio Hearn sailed from New York to Martinique, where he tell under the spell of the island and its people. Intending to stay only a few months, he remained there for two years, immersed in Martinique's vibrant culture and tropical beauty. The result was one of the most detailed and poetic accounts of ...
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Lafcadio Hearn's Creole Cookbook
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This cookbook, first published in 1885, was the first Creole cookbook ever printed. It is a rare collection of recipes from leading New Orleans chefs of the day, as well as from Creole housewives who shared their recipes and housekeeping tips with the writer and cartoonist throughout his stay in the city. This volume is a long-lasting treasure ...
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The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn
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Professor Lafcadio Hearn
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: JAPANESE FEMALE NAMES By the Japanese a certain kind of girl is called a Rose-Girl ? Bara-Musume. Perhaps my ieader will think of Tennyson's " queen-rose of the ...
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Shadowings
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A menagerie of observation, philosophy, musing, and storytelling, Shadowings is quirky and charming, not unlike its author, transplanted Westerner Lafcadio Hearn. In this work, Hearn takes us from an ancient Japanese legend of love and spirits to an intimate contemplation on fear to a philosophical study of feminine Japanese names. Applying both ...
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Exotics & Retrospectives
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In Exotics and Retrospectives, Lafcadio Hearn plays the role not only of tour guide, but also dreamscaper. Whether through his narrative recounting of Japanese customs and traditional tales, or while sharing his personal observations and flights of fancy, Hearn's graceful and poetic prose enables the reader to enter a foreign world. Covering ...
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Japan's Religions: Shinto and Buddhism
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Contents: Question in the Zen Texts; Introduction to Buddhism; Higher Buddhism; Nirvana; Dust; Within the Circle; By Force of Karma; Idea of Preexistence; Pilgrimage to Enoshima; Ancient Cult; Religion of the Home; Development of Shinto; Worship and Purification; Some Thoughts About Ancestor Worship; Kitsuki, The Most Ancient Shrine of Japan.
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Kotto: Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs
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Journalist-by-trade Lafcadio Hearn used his wanderer's eye and guileless, graceful style to provide elegant chronicles for an English-speaking world fascinated by the exotic sensibilities of Japan. He set himself apart from others who attempted to translate the life and culture of this island country through his ability to reveal the truth of his ...
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Lafcadio Hearn: Japan's Great Interpreter: A New Anthology of His Writings 1894-1904
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Lafcadio Hearn, Allen Louis, Louis Allen
This collection of Lafcadio Hearn's writings, including ghost stories and letters, is published to mark the centenary of Hearn's arrival in Japan. Hearn was the son of an Anglo-Irish surgeon major in the British army and a Greek mother and became famous as one of Japan's "great interpreters", at a time when Japan was undergoing dramatic social ...
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Interpretations of literature
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Lafcadio Hearn
A reprint of the 1915 edition containing essays on Shakespeare, Poe, Longfellow, Shelley, Keats, English poetry, Baudelaire, the supernatural in fiction, poems about insects and other literary topics. These were lectures to his students while he held the chair of English literature in the University of Tokyo from 1896 to 1902. Selected and edited, ...
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