BOOK

American writings

Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904, Benfey, Christopher E. G., 1954-

2009

Overview

The writings of Hearn's American years reveal an omnivorous curiosity and an always eclectic sensibility. Some Chinese Ghosts (1887) is a stylized retelling of ancient legends, foreshadowing Hearn's later fascination with Asian themes. The exquisitely crafted novels Chita (1889), about the devastation wrought by a Louisiana hurricane, and Youma (1890) about a slave rebellion in Martinique, epitomize his writing at its most luxuriantly romantic. His extraordinary travel book Two Years in the French West Indies (1890) provides a richly impressionistic account of his long stay on Martinique and other Caribbean islands.

• Publisher: Library of America : Distributed to the trade by Penguin Putnam
• Subject: Fathers and daughters Fiction. / Missing children Fiction. / Yellow fever Fiction. / Hurricanes Fiction. / Physicians Fiction. / Louisiana Fiction. / Islands Fiction. / Slaves West Indies Fiction. / China Social life and customs Fiction.
• ISBN: 9781598530391, 1598530399

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS1916.B46 2009	1	BOOK	GENERAL