Kwaidan - Stories and Studies of Strange Things, Hearn Lafcadio

Автор: Hearn, Lafcadio
Название: Japanese Ghost Stories
ISBN: 0241381274 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241381274
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: The dead wreak revenge on the living, paintings come alive, spectral brides possess mortal men and a priest devours human flesh in these chilling Japanese ghost stories retold by a master of the supernatural. Lafcadio Hearn drew on the phantoms and ghouls of traditional Japanese folklore - including the headless 'rokuro-kubi', the monstrous goblins 'jikininki' or the faceless 'mujina' who stalk lonely neighbourhoods - and infused them with his own memories of his haunted childhood in nineteenth-century Ireland to create these terrifying tales of striking and eerie power. Today they are regarded in Japan as classics in their own right.

Edited with an introduction by Paul Murray

Автор: Lafcadio Hearn
Название: American Writings
ISBN: 1598530399 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781598530391
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 24520.00 T
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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: Hearn Lafcadio
Название: Insect Literature
ISBN: 1783807407 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783807406
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Автор: Hearn, Lafcadio,
Название: Japanese fairy tales and others
ISBN: 1602060711 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781602060715
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Автор: Hearn Lafcadio
Название: Yokai Stories: Ghostly Tales from Japan (Manga Yokai Stories)
ISBN: 4805315660 ISBN-13(EAN): 9784805315668
Издательство: Tuttle
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Описание: This thrilling collection of seven Japanese ghost stories will captivate lovers of yokai stories

These classic Japanese ghost stories are based on those written by famed author Lafcadio Hearn between 1890 and 1904. Here, they are retold by award-winning comic book writer Sean Michael Wilson, who has garnered a worldwide fan base for his manga adaptations of works of Japanese literature, including such classics as The Book of Five Rings and The Demon's Sermon on the Martial Arts.

Manga Yokai Stories includes:

• Nuke-kubi: A masterless samurai is trapped in a house haunted by headless goblins
• The Screen Maiden: A young man develops an obsession with a woman in a painting that almost kills him
• Corpse Rider: A woman's unburied corpse cannot rest until she has taken her revenge on the man who divorced her
• A Dead Secret: A young mother terrifies her family when she returns as a ghost, unable to find peace until she puts to rest a shocking secret she has left behind

This book is in traditional Japanese reading order--from back to front--so that fans and manga lovers can enjoy an authentic reading experience.

Автор: Hearn Lafcadio
Название: In Ghostly Japan and Other Stories
ISBN: 1375006304 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781375006309
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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.