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KokoroHints and Echos of Japanese Inner Life by Lafcadio Hearn
Category: Biography
The 15 classic essays collected in Kokoro examine the inner spiritual life of Japan.The title itself can be translated as "heart," "spirit" or "inner meaning," and that's exactly what this collection teaches us about Japan. Sometimes touching and always compelling, the writings here tell the stories of ...Show more
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange by Lafcadio Hearn; Hiroshi Watanabe (Photographer); Paul Murray (Introduction by)
Category: General Fiction
Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was a uniquely international literary star: born in in the Greek isles to a British military surgeon, he grew up in Ireland, France, and Ohio--with stops along the way in Louisiana and the Caribbean--before finally settling in Japan. It is this last destination that brought hi ...Show more
Lafcadio Hearn's Japan: Stories and Essays from Japan's Most Famous Foreign Observer by Lafcadio Hearn
Category: Travel
"The Japanese people are more mysterious than I imagined through Hearn's books." --Albert EinsteinLafcadio Hearn is the most significant early interpreter of Japan and Japanese culture for the West--a man who traveled to Japan when he was thirty-nine, and never left. Lafcadio Hearn's Japan presents Hear ...Show more
Lafcadio Hearn’s Kwaidan: Terrifying Stories of Japanese Yokai, Ghosts, and Demons by Lafcadio Hearn
Category: Classic Fiction
'Even as she screamed, her voice became thin, like a crying of wind; then she melted into a bright white mist that spired to the roof beams. Never again was she seen.'Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan (which means "ghost story" in Japanese) is the first and most famous collection of Japanese yokai stories ever p ...Show more
Manga Yokai Stories by Lafcadio Hearn; Sean Michael Wilson
Category: Graphic Novels
This thrilling collection of seven Japanese ghost stories will captivate lovers of yokai stories Manga Yokai Stories includes: Nuke-kubi A masterless samurai is trapped in a house haunted by headless goblinsThe Screen Maiden A young man develops an obsession with a woman in a painting that almost kills ...Show more
Manga Yokai Stories - Ghostly Stories from Japan by Lafcadio Hearn
Category: Classic
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 ...Show more
Of Ghosts and Goblins by Lafcadio Hearn
Category: Classic Fiction
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics - irresistible, mini editions of short works by the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith In this haunting collection, the phantoms and ghouls of Japanese folklore stalk the page. Lafcadio Hearn, a master storyteller, drew ...Show more
Oriental Ghost Stories by Lafcadio Hearn
Category: Classic | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
' - and the man saw that she had no eyes or nose or mouth - and he screamed.' Lafcadio Hearn's fascinating and unsettling ghost stories are a reinterpretation of oriental legends, and folktales. They are a potent blend of weird beauty and horror. Hearn, who referred to his narratives as 'stories and stu ...Show more