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Lafcadio Hearn: A Biographical Essay. Of Greek and Anglo-Irish parentage, Hearn was born on the island of Lefkas on June 27, 1850, and died in Japan on September 26, 1904. When he was three his parents separated and young Lafcadio was taken to Ireland to be raised by a stern great-aunt, who intended him for the Jesuit priesthood. After primary.

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.

JAPANESE FEMALE NAMES OF TO-DAY. By Mr. Suzuki Sakaye. This paper, primarily intended as a review of Lafcadio Hearn's essay on the same subject, was originally written in the form of a.

There are many ellipses in the text. Hearn often used them in this book; they do not represent omissions by the digitizer. Author's original notes are in brackets, those by the digitizer are in parentheses. Diacritical marks in the original are absent from this digitized version. KWAIDAN: Stories and Studies of Strange Things By Lafcadio Hearn.

Kwaidan is a film cinephiles instantly recognise from its distinctive imagery, even if they haven’t seen it themselves. I was in that category until recently, having first seen stills from it decades ago when my obsession with cinema was first manifesting.

INTRODUCTION. The publication of a new volume of Lafcadio Hearn's exquisite studies of Japan happens, by a delicate irony, to fall in the very month when the world is waiting with tense expectation for news of the latest exploits of Japanese battleships.

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In Ghostly Japan Read by LibriVox Volunteers This collection of 14 stories collected by Lafcadio Hearn, contains Japanese ghost stories, but also several non-fiction pieces.

Lafcadio Hearn was born on the Greek island of Santa Maura, originally called Leucadia, in 1850, to an Irish surgeon in the British army and a woman of Maltese ancestry. He and his mother moved to Dublin in 1852 to be with his Irish relatives. His mother went back to Greece two years later leaving Lafcadio in Ireland with a great aunt who sent.

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