Complete Works of Lafcadio Hearn

by Lafcadio Hearn

In the Victorian era, Lafcadio Hearn introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the West. Celebrated for his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, as well as writings about the city of New Orleans, Hearn produced a diverse and inimitable range of works. This comprehensive eBook presents Hearn’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Hearn’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the major texts
* All the published books, with individual contents tables
* Features many rare story and essay collections available in only this eBook
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Famous works are fully illustrated with their original artwork
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the complete short stories
* Easily locate the short stories you want to read
* Includes Hearn’s rare Creole works– available in no other collection
* Features Bisland’s seminal biography - explore Hearn’s life and letters
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

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CONTENTS:

Books on Japanese Subjects
GLIMPSES OF UNFAMILIAR JAPAN (1894)
OUT OF THE EAST (1895)
KOKORO: HINTS AND ECHOES OF JAPANESE INNER LIFE (1896)
GLEANINGS IN BUDDHA-FIELDS (1897)
EXOTICS AND RETROSPECTIVES (1898)
JAPANESE FAIRY TALES (1898)
IN GHOSTLY JAPAN (1899)
SHADOWINGS (1900)
JAPANESE LYRICS (1900)
A JAPANESE MISCELLANY (1901)
KOTTŌ: BEING JAPANESE CURIOS, WITH SUNDRY COBWEBS (1902)
KWAIDAN: STORIES AND STUDIES OF STRANGE THINGS (1903)
JAPAN: AN ATTEMPT AT INTERPRETATION (1904)
THE ROMANCE OF THE MILKY WAY AND OTHER STUDIES AND STORIES (1905)

Books on Louisiana Subjects
LA CUISINE CREOLE: A COLLECTION OF CULINARY RECIPES (1885)
GOMBO ZHÈBES: A LITTLE DICTIONARY OF CREOLE PROVERBS (1885)
CHITA: A MEMORY OF LAST ISLAND (1889)
CREOLE SKETCHES (1922)

Other Works
ONE OF CLEOPATRA’S NIGHTS AND OTHER FANTASTIC ROMANCES by Théophile Gautier (1882)
STRAY LEAVES FROM STRANGE LITERATURE (1884)
SOME CHINESE GHOSTS (1887)
YOUMA, THE STORY OF A WEST-INDIAN SLAVE (1889)
TWO YEARS IN THE FRENCH WEST INDIES (1890)
LEAVES FROM THE DIARY OF AN IMPRESSIONIST (1911)
BOOKS AND HABITS, FROM THE LECTURES OF LAFCADIO HEARN

The Short Stories
LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

The Biographies
THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF LAFCADIO HEARN by Elizabeth Bisland

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Published August 2, 2017

About the author

Greek-born American writer Lafcadio Hearn spent 15 years in Japan; people note his collections of stories and essays, including Kokoro (1896), under pen name Koizumi Yakumo.

Rosa Cassimati (Ρόζα Αντωνίου Κασιμάτη in Greek), a Greek woman, bore Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (Πατρίκιος Λευκάδιος Χερν in Greek or 小泉八雲 in Japanese), a son, to Charles Hearn, an army doctor from Ireland. After making remarkable works in America as a journalist, he went to Japan in 1890 as a journey report writer of a magazine. He arrived in Yokohama, but because of a dissatisfaction with the contract, he quickly quit the job. He afterward moved to Matsué as an English teacher of Shimané prefectural middle school. In Matsué, he got acquainted with Nishida Sentarô, a colleague teacher and his lifelong friend, and married Koizumi Setsu, a daughter of a samurai.
In 1891, he moved to Kumamoto and taught at the fifth high school for three years. Kanô Jigorô, the president of the school of that time, spread judo to the world.

Hearn worked as a journalist in Kôbé and afterward in 1896 got Japanese citizenship and a new name, Koizumi Yakumo. He took this name from "Kojiki," a Japanese ancient myth, which roughly translates as "the place where the clouds are born". On that year, he moved to Tôkyô and began to teach at the Imperial University of Tôkyô. He got respect of students, many of whom made a remarkable literary career. In addition, he wrote much reports of Japan and published in America. So many people read his works as an introduction of Japan. He quit the Imperial University in 1903 and began to teach at Waseda University on the year next. Nevertheless, after only a half year, he died of angina pectoris.

Reviews

[Madison Santos]

strange, now fringe turn of the century american writer. not sure why i read him other than i picked this up in a thrift shop and saw that he was writing about new orleans, haiti and japan around 1900 which seemed cool. so many great japanese ghost stories. as a journalist in cincinnati he also wrote about a man who received the death penalty named James Murphy (yes like the LCD Soundsystem guy). the cincinnati james murphy had to be hanged twice on account of the noose snapping. i wrote a poem about how god was telling them they got the wrong james murphy and now we're stuck with LCD Soundsystem, it's titled "on the antiquated notion of selling out" and if it ever happens it will be in my first book of poetry, "dumpster diving" maybe for sale this fall on the streets of new york city where i sell books.