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  • The Japanese Letters Of Lafcadio Hearn
    Lafcadio Hearn
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    30,37 €

  • The Life And Letters Of Lafcadio Hearn V2
    Elizabeth Bisland / Lafcadio Hearn
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    31,16 €

  • Youma
    Lafcadio Hearn
    ''Youma: The Story Of A West-Indian Slave'' is a novel written by Lafcadio Hearn. The story is set in the Caribbean during the early 19th century and follows the life of a young slave girl named Youma. She is sold into slavery at a young age and is forced to work on a plantation where she experiences the harsh realities of slavery.Throughout the novel, Youma faces many challeng...
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    29,16 €

  • Talks To Writers
    Lafcadio Hearn
    Talks to Writers is a collection of essays and lectures by Lafcadio Hearn, a renowned writer and journalist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The book is a fascinating insight into Hearn’s thoughts on writing, literature, and the creative process, as well as his experiences as a journalist and foreign correspondent.The essays cover a wide range of topics, from the art ...
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    33,46 €

  • Stray Leaves From Strange Literature
    Lafcadio Hearn
    Stray Leaves From Strange Literature is a collection of essays and translations by Lafcadio Hearn, a writer and journalist known for his work on Japanese culture and folklore. The book includes a variety of pieces, ranging from Hearn’s reflections on the supernatural to his translations of Japanese ghost stories and legends. Many of the essays focus on the eerie and the mysteri...
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    30,23 €

  • Shadowings
    Lafcadio Hearn
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    34,56 €

  • Kokoro - Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life
    Lafcadio Hearn
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
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    36,44 €

  • Out of the East
    Lafcadio Hearn
    In 1889 Westerner PATRICK LAFCADIO HEARN (1850-1904)-bohemian, newspaper writer, restless traveler-arrived in Japan on a journalistic assignment, and he fell so in love with the nation and its people that he never left. This 1910 collection of essays Hearn, in his inimitable warmly intimate style, shares languid Japanese fairy tales, introduces us to his university students and...
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    28,91 €

  • Some Chinese Ghosts by Lafcadio Hearn, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
    Lafcadio Hearn
    I think that my best apology for the insignificant size of this volume is the very character of the material composing it. In preparing the legends I sought especially for weird beauty; and I could not forget this striking observation in Sir Walter Scott’s 'Essay on Imitations of the Ancient Ballad': 'The supernatural, though appealing to certain powerful emotions very widely a...
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    10,57 €

  • Japanese Lyrics
    Lafcadio Hearn
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    14,83 €

  • Buddhism - Gleanings in Buddha-Fields; Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East
    Lafcadio Hearn
    Originally published in 1927. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Researches into Japanese Buddhism. This book is full of suggestive thought, wit...
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    33,57 €

  • Japan
    Lafcadio Hearn
    The belief that the dead need affection, that to neglect them is a cruelty, that their happiness depends upon duty, is a belief that has almost cast out the primitive fear of their displeasure. They are not thought of as dead; they are believed to remain among those who loved them.... From their shrine they observe and hear what happens in the house; they share the family joys ...
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    34,33 €

  • Kokoro
    Lafcadio Hearn
    Generally speaking, we construct for endurance, the Japanese for impermanency. Few things for common use are made in Japan with a view to durability. The straw sandals worn out and replaced at each stage of a journey; the robe consisting of a few simple widths loosely stitched together for wearing, and unstitched again for washing; the fresh chopsticks served to each new guest ...
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    24,53 €

  • Interpretations of Literature
    Lafcadio Hearn
    A reprint of the 1915 edition containing essays on Shakespeare, Poe, Longfellow, Shelley, Keats, English poetry, Baudelaire, the supernatural in fiction, poems about insects and other literary topics. These were lectures to his students while he held the chair of English literature in the University of Tokyo from 1896 to 1902. Selected and edited, with an introduction, by Joh...
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    34,23 €

  • Gleanings in Buddha-Fields
    Lafcadio Hearn
    Lafcadio Hearn’s books have charmed and captivated readers, just as the exotic subjects about which he has written have captivated him. 'Gleanings in the Buddha-Fields' presents more Hearn magic as he enters into the spirit of Buddhism as though he were born into it. This collection of stories, subtitled 'Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East,' takes the reader on a journey ...
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    21,01 €

  • Japan An Attempt At Interpretation
    Lafcadio Hearn
    ''Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation'' is a book written by Lafcadio Hearn, a Greek-Irish writer who lived in Japan for over a decade and became a naturalized Japanese citizen. The book is a collection of essays that attempt to provide an understanding of Japanese culture, society, and history from a Western perspective. Hearn explores various topics such as religion, art, lit...
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    37,64 €

  • Glimpses Of An Unfamiliar Japan
    Lafcadio Hearn
    ''Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan'' is a collection of essays written by Lafcadio Hearn, a writer who lived in Japan during the late 19th century. The book provides a fascinating look into Japanese culture, customs, and traditions from the perspective of a Westerner who was deeply intrigued by the country. Hearn’s writing style is poetic and evocative, and he weaves together pe...
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    34,88 €

  • In Ghostly Japan
    Lafcadio Hearn
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    16,36 €

  • Kwaidan Stories And Studies Of Strange Things
    Lafcadio Hearn
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    14,26 €

  • Kwaidan
    Lafcadio Hearn
    'Kwaidan' means 'weird tales.' Lafcadio Hearn has taken kwaidan and written some amazing, hair-raising tales of long ago--delicate, transparent, ghostly sketches of a world unreal, but with a haunting sense of spiritual reality. It is a unique collection of haunting Japanese supernatural stories written by a Westerner who adopted Japan as his homeland. ...
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    17,98 €

  • The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
    Anatole France / Lafcadio Hearn
    The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard is a novel written by the French author Anatole France. The story follows the life of Sylvestre Bonnard, an elderly scholar who spends his days in the Biblioth�����que Nationale in Paris, studying and cataloging rare books. Bonnard is a solitary man who has never married or had children, and he is content with his quiet life of scholarship.However...
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    36,71 €

  • Kokoro
    Lafcadio Hearn / Lafcadio Hern
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    31,03 €

  • Chita
    Lafcadio Hearn
    This is an unusual exotic novel of coastal Louisiana, unique in the local color movement for its impressionistic use of the southern landscape. Introduction by Arlin Turner.Originally published in 1969.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previousl...
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    64,29 €


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