Hearn: 261 books

In 1887 Harper's Magazine sent Lafcadio Hearn to the West Indies to write a series of articles on the area. Following his time there, he wrote 'Two Years in the French West Indies', in 1890, chronicling his observations and experiences in the region. He is probably best known for his writings on Japan,...

A talking tea kettle, a monstrous goblin-spider that lives in a haunted temple, miniature soldiers that plague a lazy young bride, and other fanciful creatures abound in this captivating collection of eleven Japanese fairy tales. Youngsters are transported to an exotic, faraway world of samurai warriors,...

Scholar and self-taught ethnographer Lafcadio Hearn spent much of his life documenting and interpreting Japanese culture for Western audiences. His observations and essays in Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan offer an exciting look into the daily lives of the Japanese in a bygone era.

“Japanese fairy tale series (Volume 1)” is a collection of numerous Japanese traditional tales and folklore retold in English: no.1. – Momotaro, no.2. – Tongue cut sparrow (Shitakiri suzume), no.3. – Battle of the monkey and the crab (Sarukani kassen), no.4. – Old man who made the dead...

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...

This 1898 collection is split into two parts:  The first, "Exotics," consists of Hearn's Japanese journalism; the second, "Retrospectives," contains his personal essays and reflections.  Standouts are "Fuji no Yama," recounting the author's grueling ascent of Mt. Fuji, and "Insect Musicians," relating the now-vanished market in music-making insects. 

Kokoro, meaning "heart," "spirit," and “way of being” is a fitting title for this 1896 collection, for these fifteen essays focus on the interior life of Japan and its people.  Hearn's insights into Japan’s soul are unmatched by any Westerner, and his portraits of individual Japanese are as profound as his long essays on the civilization.

Lafcadio Hearn, born 1850 in Greece, known also by the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo, went to Japan, when he was 40 years old, as a newspaper correspondent for "Harper's Magazine". His writings about Japan from the beginning of the Meiji era, when the country was just opening to the West, remain among...

Written while was Hearn was a professor of English literature at the Imperial University of Tokyo, A Japanese Miscellany (1901) contains three sections: “Strange Stories,””Folklore Gleanings,”(with its beautiful dragonfly illustrations), and “Studies Here and There,” which looks at unusual...

Gombo ZhÈBes by Lafcadio Hearn.

Gleanings in Buddha-Fields: Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East written by an international writer Lafcadio Hearn. This book is one of many works by him. It has already Published in 1897. Now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form....

All aboard the Sinful Express! Fortune gets roped into leading this month's Sinful Library mystery book club. But fiction becomes reality when one of the book club members is poisoned. Will Fortune, Gertie and Ida Belle catch the perp before she strikes again? Or will one of them become her...

"El romance de la Vía Láctea" constituye un curioso y heterogéneo recopilatorio de obras de Lafcadio Hearn, cuyo eje central radica en el mito de Tanabata, relato que no solo cuenta la historia de los enamorados Orihime y Hikoboshi, sino que también explica el origen de la leyenda, de...

Ivy is used to being overlooked. The youngest in a family of thieves, scoundrels, and roustabouts, the girl with the flame-colored hair and odd-colored eyes is declared useless by her father from the day she is born. But that's only if you look at her but don't see. For Ivy has a quality that makes...