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  • KOKORO
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    KOKORO
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    Auszug: "Er war in einer Stadt im Innern des Landes geboren, der Residenz eines Daimyo mit einem Territoriumbesitz von hunderttausend Koko (altes japanisches Maß). Kein Fremder hatte die Gegend jemals betreten. Die Yashiki Residenz eines Daimyo. seines Vaters, eines Samurai von hohem Rang, lag innerhalb der äußern Festungsmauern, von denen der fürstliche Palast umgeben war. Es ...

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  • TWO YEARS IN THE FRENCH WEST INDIES
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    TWO YEARS IN THE FRENCH WEST INDIES
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    An often referred to and well-respected account, mainly on Martinique, but also on Trinidad, St. Pierre, St. Kitt's, St. Lucia, Granada, etc. The author is most well-known for his works on Japan. A series of light, amusing and evocative sketches of Martinique at the end of the 19th century. This tells of the two years the author lived in the West Indies in the late 1880's. An a...

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  • SOME CHINESE GHOSTS
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    SOME CHINESE GHOSTS
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    Dragons, artists, aristocrats, deities. Ghosts, demons. Beautiful women and brave young men. A tapestry of Chinese ghost stories by Lafcadio Hearn, a writer of Greek and Irish blood, influenced by the Chinese and Japanese culture with a distinctive sensitivity and clarity in his writing. These stories take us to the heart of an early medieval society populated with heroes and w...

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  • THE ROMANCE OF THE MILKY WAY, AND OTHER STUDIES & STORIES
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    THE ROMANCE OF THE MILKY WAY, AND OTHER STUDIES & STORIES
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    Lafcadio Hearn was a writer particularly gifted at translating a foreign aesthetic for a Western audience. Hearn's writing is always lyrical and passionate, and in this collection of essays and tales-not all of which are on subjects Japanese, unlike his most popular works-we see also his most refined workmanship and most intellectual discourse. Whether an extrapolation on Gobli...

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  • CHITA: A MEMORY OF LAST ISLAND
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    CHITA: A MEMORY OF LAST ISLAND
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    Lafcadio Hearn was an English writer who was born in Greece, lived in Ireland, and then moved to the United States. He later moved to Japan, which had a great influence on his writing. Hearn is best known for his stories about Japan, especially his ghost stories and legends. Chita a Memory of Last Island was written while Hearn was living in New Orleans. Chita was a young white...

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  • JAPAN: AN ATTEMPT AT INTERPRETATION
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    JAPAN: AN ATTEMPT AT INTERPRETATION
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    Scholar and travel writer Lafcadio Hearn spent decades in Japan, eventually adopting it as his home country. Perhaps more than any other single writer, Hearn is responsible for documenting and interpreting Japan for Western audiences. In this engrossing volume, Hearn undertakes his most comprehensive comparative analysis of Japanese culture. (Goodreads) ...

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  • KIMIKO, AND OTHER JAPANESE SKETCHES
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    KIMIKO, AND OTHER JAPANESE SKETCHES
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    A brief but delightful insight into Japanese culture by an author who (from my experience) has consistently captured the ways of the Japanese people of the time. (Goodreads) ...

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  • BOOKS AND HABITS, FROM LECTURES OF LAFCADIO HEARN
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    BOOKS AND HABITS, FROM LECTURES OF LAFCADIO HEARN
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn These chapters, for the most part, are reprinted from Lafcadio Hearn's "Interpretations of Literature," 1915, from his "Life and Literature," 1916, and from his "Appreciations of Poetry," 1917. Three chapters appear here for the first time. They are all taken from the student notes of Hearn's lectures at the...

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  • STRAY LEAVES FROM STRANGE LITERATURE, AND, FANTASTICS AND OTHER FANCIES
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    STRAY LEAVES FROM STRANGE LITERATURE, AND, FANTASTICS AND OTHER FANCIES
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    Excerpt: "While engaged upon this little mosaic work of legend and fable, I felt much like one of those merchants told of in Sindbad's Second Voyage, who were obliged to content themselves with gathering the small jewels adhering to certain meat which eagles brought up from the Valley of Diamonds. I have had to depend altogether upon the labor of translators for my acquisitions...

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    "OUT OF THE EAST": REVERIES AND STUDIES IN NEW JAPAN
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    Lafcadio Hearn was probably as responsible as anyone for opening the Western mind to the ways of the Japanese, having lived and worked there, marrying a Japanese woman and becoming a naturalized citizen. He made his fame through translating Japanese ghost stories, but he also wrote a vast amount of essays and articles, with this being a collection of short, thoughtful pieces. (...

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    "GOMBO ZHÈBES" LITTLE DICTIONARY OF CREOLE PROVERBS
    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. (Goodreads) ...

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  • KOTTO: BEING JAPANESE CURIOS, WITH SUNDRY COBWEBS
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    KOTTO: BEING JAPANESE CURIOS, WITH SUNDRY COBWEBS
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    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 subjects artfully-flawlessly ex...

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  • GLEANINGS IN BUDDHA-FIELDS: STUDIES OF HAND AND SOUL IN THE FAR EAST
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    GLEANINGS IN BUDDHA-FIELDS: STUDIES OF HAND AND SOUL IN THE FAR EAST
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    Lafcadio Hearn's books have charmed and captivated readers, just as the exotic subjects about which he has written have captivated him. "Gleanings in the Buddha-Fields" presents more Hearn magic as he enters into the spirit of Buddhism as though he were born into it. This collection of stories, subtitled "Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East," takes the reader on a journey ...

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  • GLIMPSES OF UNFAMILIAR JAPAN FIRST AND SECOND SERIES
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    GLIMPSES OF UNFAMILIAR JAPAN FIRST AND SECOND SERIES
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a bewitching look into a world that few Westerners saw in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—a world that still endures in many ways in spite of the changes that have taken place during the modernization of Japan. (Goodreads) ...

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  • IN GHOSTLY JAPAN
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    IN GHOSTLY JAPAN
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    In Ghostly Japan collects twelve ghostly stories from Lafcadio Hearn, deathless images of ghosts and goblins, touches of folklore and superstition, salted with traditions of the nation. While some of these stories contain nightmare imagery worthy of a midnight creature feature, others are not ghostly or ghastly at all. "Bits of Poetry" offers an engaging study on verse, and "Ja...

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  • JAPANISCHE GEISTERGESCHICHTEN - ILLUSTRIERTE FASSUNG
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    JAPANISCHE GEISTERGESCHICHTEN - ILLUSTRIERTE FASSUNG
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    Der Band Japanische Geistergeschichten enthält zwölf Geschichten aus der japanischen Folklore die sowohl die Geister der Toten als auch die Geister der Lebenden kennt. ...

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  • OUT OF THE EAST (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
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    OUT OF THE EAST (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    This book, first published in 1903, is an account of Lafcadio Hearn’s insights and experiences of Japan. Hearn, known also by the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo, was an international writer who was best known for his books about Japan and Japanese culture. This book will be of interest to students of history and Asian Studies. ...

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  • LA CUISINE CREOLE
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    LA CUISINE CREOLE
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    Published in New Orleans in 1885, one of the great classics of Creole cuisine, believed to be the first Creole cookbook in print. Although La Cuisine Creole was printed anonymously in 1885, Lafcadio Hearn is generally accepted as the author of this Creole culinary classic. In his introduction, Hearn describes the intriguing origin of this unique cuisine, explaining that, "it pa...

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  • LA CUISINE CREOLE
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    LA CUISINE CREOLE
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    Published in New Orleans in 1885, one of the great classics of Creole cuisine, believed to be the first Creole cookbook in print. Although La Cuisine Creole was printed anonymously in 1885, Lafcadio Hearn is generally accepted as the author of this Creole culinary classic. In his introduction, Hearn describes the intriguing origin of this unique cuisine, explaining that, "it pa...

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  • GLEANINGS IN BUDDHA-FIELDS
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    GLEANINGS IN BUDDHA-FIELDS
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    First published in 2006. The third book of Lafcadio Hearn’s Japanese period, Gleanings in Buddha-Fields is a volume of philosophical essays and sketches inspired by the teachings of Buddha. Through a series of loosely connected essays, the author offers readers a wealth of insights into Japanese life, art and religion. When the book was first published in 1897, it attracted the...

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  • CHITA
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    CHITA
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    A woman's life is forever changed by a hurricane on a Gulf Coast island in this "evocative parable of people living the good life on the edge of the abyss" ( The Washington Post).   In the mid–nineteenth century, the wealthy find relief from the New Orleans heat on the barrier island of L'Ile Dernière. But when a cataclysmic storm arrives and leaves devastation in its wake, you...

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  • SELECTED GHOST STORIES FROM KWAIDAN
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    SELECTED GHOST STORIES FROM KWAIDAN
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    A haunting collection of Japanese folktales, translated and interpreted by the acclaimed Irish-Greek author and Japanophile. In 1904, Lafcadio Hearn introduced Western readers to the world of Japanese folklore with his collection of ghost stories, Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. His hauntingly lyrical and complex translations, in which he often put his own twist...

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  • KWAIDAN
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    KWAIDAN
    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 ...

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  • LA CUISINE CREOLE
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    LA CUISINE CREOLE
    LAFCADIO HEARN
    Published in New Orleans in 1885, one of the great classics of Creole cuisine, believed to be the first Creole cookbook in print. Although La Cuisine Creole was printed anonymously in 1885, Lafcadio Hearn is generally accepted as the author of this Creole culinary classic. In his introduction, Hearn describes the intriguing origin of this unique cuisine, explaining that, "it pa...

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  • KWAIDAN CUENTOS FANTASTICOS DEL JAPON
    KWAIDAN CUENTOS FANTASTICOS DEL JAPON
    HEARN LAFCADIO
    Hijo de padre angloirlandés y madre griega, Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) llegó en 1890 a Japón, donde, subyugado por el país (casó con una japonesa, fue profesor en la Universidad Imperial de Tokio y llegó a ser súbdito japonés, adoptando el nombre de Yakumo Koizumi), permaneció hasta su muerte, dedicado a la enseñanza y a la literatura. Su sensibilidad y empatía hacia el Imperio...
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