Inventing New Orleans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inventing New Orleans write by Lafcadio Hearn. This book was released on 2001. Inventing New Orleans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A selection of writings from the author who created America's notion of New Orleans as an exotic and mysterious place
Lafcadio Hearn's Japan
Lafcadio Hearn's Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lafcadio Hearn's Japan write by Lafcadio Hearn. This book was released on 2011-04-11. Lafcadio Hearn's Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of writings from Lafcaido Hern paints a rare and fascinating picture of pre-modern Japan Over a century after his death, author, translator, and educator Lafcaido Hearn remains one of the best-known Westerners ever to make Japan his home. Almost more Japanese than the Japanese--"to think with their thoughts" was his aim--his prolific writings on things Japanese were instrumental in introducing Japanese culture to the West. In this masterful anthology, Donald Richie shows that Hearn was first and foremost a reliable and enthusiastic observer, who faithfully recorded a detailed account of the people, customs, and culture of late nineteen-century Japan. Opening and closing with excerpts from Hearn's final books, Richie's astute selection from among "over 4,000 printed pages" not including correspondence and other writing, also reveals Hearn's later, more sober and reflective attitudes to the things that he observed and wrote about. Part One, "The Land," chronicles Hearn's early years when he wrote primarily about the appearance of his adopted home. Part Two, "The People," records the author's later years when he came to terms with the Japanese themselves. In this anthology, Richie, more gifted in capturing the essence of a person on the page than any other foreign writer living in Japan, has picked out the best of Hearn's evocations. Select writings include: The Chief City of the Province of the Gods Three Popular Ballads In the Cave of the Children's Ghosts Bits of Life and Death A Street Singer Kimiko On A Bridge
思い出の記
思い出の記 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 思い出の記 write by Setsu Koizumi. This book was released on 1918. 思い出の記 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Fantastic Journey
A Fantastic Journey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Fantastic Journey write by Paul Murray. This book was released on 1993. A Fantastic Journey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) has long been marginalised as a failed Victorian Romantic whose writings on Japan were poetic but inconsequential; as a person, he emerges as a one-dimensional neurotic. In this new study, based on a wealth of hitherto unpublished sources, as well as a fresh reading of Hearn's writings, Paul Murray reveals a multi-faceted character of considerable depth, intelligence and literary skill. This is a book, therefore, that will appeal on many levels. The story of Hearn's life makes fascinating reading; his fantastic journey took him from conception outside marriage on a Greek island to a protected upbringing in Dublin; from a Gothic education in England to Cincinnati in the United States where, as Paddy Hearn, he established himself as a journalist of the macabre par excellence. In New Orleans, in the 1860s, he transformed himself into Lafcadio Hearn, litterateur and a man of the South. Finally after two years in the West Indies, he spent the last fourteen years of his life in Japan - arriving in 'the land of the gods' in the spring of 1890. Although it was always to be an ambiguous relationship with his adopted country, Hearn gave to the world some of the most valuable and enduring insights into Japanese society and culture that continue to stand the test of time. For students of the Anglo-Irish tradition, a little explored strand of Hearn's heritage, this book is also essential reading, providing substantial insights into Hearn's mastery of the literary horror genre. Equally, students of Japan will want to understand, for the first time, the make-up and motivation of one of its greatest ever Western interpreters.
Insect Literature
Insect Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Insect Literature write by Lafcadio Hearn. This book was released on 2020-10-15. Insect Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Insect Literature collects twenty essays and stories written by Hearn, mostly in Japan, a land where insects were as appreciated as in ancient Greece.
