Lafcadio Hearn

Shadowings (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Written while Hearn was a professor of English literature at the Imperial University of Tokyo, Shadowings (1900) consists of three sections on various subjects. The first, Stories from Strange Books, contains six stories of horror folklore. The second section, "Japanese Studies," has musings on cicadas, female Japanese names, and old Japanese songs. Fantasies, the last section, consists of seven additional essays, including one on the horror and glory of Gothic architecture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Barnes & Noble
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781411464100
• Artikelnr.: 37871460

Autorenporträt

Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), also known as Koizumi Yakumo, was born in Greece, raised in Ireland, spent years in America, and finally became a citizen of Japan. A journalist and translator, he played a major role in introducing Japanese culture to the West. His translations of Japanese fairy tales and ghost stories were especially influential.