In Ghostly Japan

Автор: Lafcadio Hearn
Название: American Writings
ISBN: 1598530399 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781598530391
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: A singular figure in American letters, Lafcadio Hearn (1850 1904) had a life as complex as his heritage: born on a Greek isle of a Greek mother and an English father, raised in Europe, he made his name as a writer in the United States before settling permanently in Japan. Steeped in a decadent style, deeply interested in folk traditions (notably voodoo), Hearn has a keenly observant eye for the offbeat, the sensual, and the gruesome. In novels such as "Chita," about a devastating tropical tidal wave, and "Youma," about a slave rebellion in Martinique, as well as in a wealth of journalistic reports, Hearn left unrivaled first-hand portraits of the black and creole cultures of New Orleans, Cincinnati, and the French West Indies. His extraordinary travel book "Two Years in the French West Indies" is presented here with its original illustrations. "Some Chinese Ghosts," a stylized retelling of ancient legends, foreshadows his later fascination with Asian themes. The volume is rounded out with a revealing selection of impassioned letters, eight of which are published unexpurgated here for the first time.

Автор: Silverstein, Shel
Название: Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back
ISBN: 0060256753 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060256753
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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Автор: Hearn Lafcadio
Название: Kimiko and Other Japanese Sketches
ISBN: 1082785512 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781082785511
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Цена: 11440.00 T
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Описание: From the beginning of the first chapter: THE name is on a paper-lantern at the entrance of a house in the Street of the Geisha. Seen at night the street is one of the queerest in the world. It is narrow as a gangway; and the dark shining woodwork of the house-fronts, all tightly closed, - each having a tiny sliding door with paper-panes that look just like frosted glass, - makes you think of first-class passenger-cabins. Really the buildings are several stories high; but you do not observe this at once-especially if there be no moon --- because only the lower stories are illuminated up to their awnings, above which all is darlmess. The illumination is made by lamps behind the narrow paper-paned doors, and by the paper-lanterns hanging outside - one at every door. You look down the street between two lines of these lanterns - lines converging farofi into one motionless bar of yellow light. Some of the lanterns are eggshaped, some cylindrical; others foursided or six-sided; and Japanese characters are beautifully Written upon them. The street is very quiet - silent as a display of cabinet-work in some great exhibition after closing-time. This is because the inmates are mostly away - attending banquets and other festivities. Their life is of the night

Автор: Hearn, Lafcadio
Название: Kwaidan
ISBN: 1933330244 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781933330242
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Описание: Twenty unusual tales from Japan collected by one of the greatest writers on the country.

Автор: Hearn Lafcadio
Название: Glimpses Of An Unfamilar Japan Second Series
ISBN: 9353365392 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789353365394
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Автор: Hearn, Lafcadio
Название: Glimpses of unfamiliar Japan
ISBN: 4805310251 ISBN-13(EAN): 9784805310250
Издательство: Tuttle
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Описание: Combines the two volumes of a work that first appeared in 1894. This book intends to take the reader into a world that few Westerners saw in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It focuses on the customs, the superstitions, the charming scenery, and the revelations of Japanese character.