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Japanese tales of Lafcadio Hearn

Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904, author, Codrescu, Andrei, 1946- editor, Zipes, Jack, 1937- writer of foreword

2019

Overview

\"Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was one of the nineteenth century's best-known writers, his name celebrated alongside those of Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stevenson. Born in Greece and raised in Ireland, Hearn was a true prodigy and world traveler. He worked as a reporter in Cincinnati, New Orleans, and the West Indies before heading to Japan in 1890 on a commission from Harper's. There, he married a Japanese woman from a samurai family, changed his name to Koizumi Yakumo, and became a Japanese subject. An avid collector of traditional Japanese tales, legends, and myths, Hearn taught literature and wrote his own tales for both Japanese and Western audiences. Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn brings together twenty-eight of Hearn's strangest and most entertaining stories in one elegant volume\"--Back cover.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: Folklore Japan. / Japan Fiction. / Japan Social life and customs Fiction.
• ISBN: 9780691167756, 0691167753

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS1916.C64 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE