Books with author Lafcadio Hearn

A classic book of ghost stories from one of the world’s leading nineteenth-century writers, the author of In Ghostly Japan and Japanese Fairy Tales. Published just months before Lafcadio Hearn’s death in 1904, Kwaidan features several stories and a brief nonfiction study on insects: butterflies, mosquitoes, and ants. The tales included are reworkings of both written and oral Japanese traditions, including folk tales, legends, and superstitions. “At age thirty-nine, Hearn travelled on a magazine assignment to Japan, and never came back. At a moment when that country, under Emperor Meiji, was weathering the shock and upheaval of forced economic modernization, Hearn fell deeply in love with the nation’s past. He wrote fourteen books on all manner of Japanese subjects but was especially infatuated with the customs and culture preserved in Japanese folktales—particularly the ghost-story genre known as kaidan. . . . He died in 1904, and, by the time his ‘Japanese tales’ were translated into Japanese, in the nineteen-twenties, the country’s transformation was so complete that Hearn was hailed as a kind of guardian of tradition; his kaidan collections are still part of the curriculum in many Japanese schools.” —The New Yorker

In the Victorian era, Lafcadio Hearn introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the West. Celebrated for his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, as well as writings about the city of New Orleans, Hearn produced a diverse and inimitable range of works. This comprehensive eBook presents Hearn’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Hearn’s life and works* Concise introductions to the major texts* All the published books, with individual contents tables* Features many rare story and essay collections available in only this eBook * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts* Excellent formatting of the texts* Famous works are fully illustrated with their original artwork* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the complete short stories* Easily locate the short stories you want to read* Includes Hearn’s rare Creole works– available in no other collection* Features Bisland’s seminal biography - explore Hearn’s life and letters* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genresPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titlesCONTENTS:Books on Japanese SubjectsGLIMPSES OF UNFAMILIAR JAPAN (1894)OUT OF THE EAST (1895)KOKORO: HINTS AND ECHOES OF JAPANESE INNER LIFE (1896)GLEANINGS IN BUDDHA-FIELDS (1897)EXOTICS AND RETROSPECTIVES (1898)JAPANESE FAIRY TALES (1898)IN GHOSTLY JAPAN (1899)SHADOWINGS (1900)JAPANESE LYRICS (1900)A JAPANESE MISCELLANY (1901)KOTTŌ: BEING JAPANESE CURIOS, WITH SUNDRY COBWEBS (1902)KWAIDAN: STORIES AND STUDIES OF STRANGE THINGS (1903)JAPAN: AN ATTEMPT AT INTERPRETATION (1904)THE ROMANCE OF THE MILKY WAY AND OTHER STUDIES AND STORIES (1905)Books on Louisiana SubjectsLA CUISINE CREOLE: A COLLECTION OF CULINARY RECIPES (1885)GOMBO ZHÈBES: A LITTLE DICTIONARY OF CREOLE PROVERBS (1885)CHITA: A MEMORY OF LAST ISLAND (1889)CREOLE SKETCHES (1922)Other WorksONE OF CLEOPATRA’S NIGHTS AND OTHER FANTASTIC ROMANCES by Théophile Gautier (1882)STRAY LEAVES FROM STRANGE LITERATURE (1884)SOME CHINESE GHOSTS (1887)YOUMA, THE STORY OF A WEST-INDIAN SLAVE (1889)TWO YEARS IN THE FRENCH WEST INDIES (1890)LEAVES FROM THE DIARY OF AN IMPRESSIONIST (1911)BOOKS AND HABITS, FROM THE LECTURES OF LAFCADIO HEARNThe Short StoriesLIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDERLIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDERThe BiographiesTHE LIFE AND LETTERS OF LAFCADIO HEARN by Elizabeth BislandPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

Pilgrim Classics publishes public domain books. All of them can be found online for free .So why are we selling these books?We put our energy in offering a very pleasant reading experience. In Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Volume 1 by Lafcadio Hearn you will find:- A perfectly adapted layout for Kindle and all eBooks Readers- A table of contents- Annotations from WikipediaThank you for reading Pilgrim Classics. We wish you a pleasant reading moment.

Generally speaking, we construct for endurance, the Japanese for impermanency. Few things for common use are made in Japan with a view to durability. The straw sandals worn out and replaced at each stage of a journey; the robe consisting of a few simple widths loosely stitched together for wearing, and unstitched again for washing; the fresh chopsticks served to each new guest at a hotel... -from "The Genius of Japanese Civilization" Kokoro, roughly translated into English, means "heart," though it can also signify the emotional mind, spirit, courage, and resolve. In 1896, just as Japan was opening to the West and interest in Japanese culture in the outside world was flowering, Western expatriate Lafcadio Hearn published this charming and insightful valentine to his adopted country. In sweetly lyrical prose, Hearn extols the "strange morality" of Japanese crime and punishment, the startling beauty of Japanese music, the graceful demureness of Japanese women, and much more. Japanophiles and travelers to the East will delight in this extraordinary foreign journal by a traveler so in love with the land that he stayed for the rest of his life. Bohemian and writer PATRICK LAFCADIO HEARN (1850-1904) was born in Greece, raised in Ireland, and worked as newspaper reporter in the United States before decamping to Japan. He also wrote Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan (1894), In Ghostly Japan (1899), and Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation (1904).

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 Goblins"In 1889, Westerner Lafcadio Hearn arrived in Japan on a journalistic assignment, and he fell so in love with the nation and its people that he never left. In 1894, just as Japan was truly opening to the West and global interest in Japanese culture was burgeoning, Hearn published this delightful series of essays glorifying what he called the "rare charm of Japanese life."Beautifully written and a joy to read, Hearn's love letters to the land of the rising sun enchant with their sweetly lyrical descriptions of winter street fairs, puppet theaters, religious statuaries, even the Japanese smile and its particular allure.A wonderful journal of immersion on a foreign land, this will bewitch Japanophiles and travelers to the East.

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 Goblins" In 1889, Westerner Lafcadio Hearn arrived in Japan on a journalistic assignment, and he fell so in love with the nation and its people that he never left. In 1894, just as Japan was truly opening to the West and global interest in Japanese culture was burgeoning, Hearn published this delightful series of essays glorifying what he called the "rare charm of Japanese life." Beautifully written and a joy to read, Hearn's love letters to the land of the rising sun enchant with their sweetly lyrical descriptions of winter street fairs, puppet theaters, religious statuaries, even the Japanese smile and its particular allure. A wonderful journal of immersion on a foreign land, this will bewitch Japanophiles and travelers to the East.

Beautifully illustrated traditional Japanese fairy tale.A truly wonderful short story about a little boy who liked to draw cats.This book was originally printed on crepe paper and illustrated with hand-colored woodcuts.This is one of the five 'Japanese Fairy Tale' books translated by Lafcadio Hearn and published by T. Hasegawa more than one hundred years ago.The Goblin SpiderThe Boy Who Drew CatsThe Fountain of YouthChin Chin KobakamaThe Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumpling