Hearn: 261 books

Book cover of The Romance of the Milky Way and Other Studies & Stories
by Lafcadio Hearn
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015

Originally published in 1905, this work is a collection of writings by the American author Lafcadio Hearn. Hearn was a scholar of Japanese culture and society, eventually became a citizen of the country himself. This book is a collection of posthumously published essays that largely focus on Japanese...
Book cover of High Season

High Season

A memoir of heroin and hospitality

by Jim Hearn
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012

High Season is the story of Jim Hearn, a working-class boy made good-and very, very bad. It's a tale about living on the edge, restaurant kitchens, drugs and addiction. And it's a story of waking up from a heroin hell to discover real love, family and success. But what happens when Jim, three...
Book cover of Shadowings
by Lafcadio Hearn
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1990

This collection of essays and classic stories set in Japan by Lafcadio Hearn-one of the earliest Westerners to write about Japan-is an essential addition to any collection of Japanese literature. Shadowings is made up of three parts: "Stories from Strange Books," which presents six...
Book cover of Kwaidan. Storie misteriose e stravaganti
by Lafcadio Hearn
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 9, 2015

Nato nell’arcipelago delle isole Ionie da padre irlandese e madre greca, lo scrittore e giornalista Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), dopo aver peregrinato tra l’Irlanda, gli Stati Uniti e le Indie Occidentali, nel 1890 si stabilì in Giappone, assumendo in seguito la cittadinanza di questo paese (con...
Book cover of Amori defunti
by Lafcadio Hearn
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 16, 2018

Colmi di malinconia e mistero, pervasi dalla duplice idea di Amore e Morte, infestati da fantasmi, antiche divinità e bellissime donne defunte, i brevi racconti fantastici che Lafcadio Hearn scrisse nel decennio in cui soggiornò a New Orleans sono un inno alla letteratura gotica e danno vita a quell’immagine...
Book cover of Il sogno di Akinosuke e altre storie
by Lafcadio Hearn
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 9, 2017

Nato nell’arcipelago delle isole Ionie da padre irlandese e madre greca, lo scrittore e giornalista Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), dopo aver peregrinato tra l’Irlanda, gli Stati Uniti e le Indie Occidentali, nel 1890 si stabilì in Giappone, assumendo in seguito la cittadinanza di questo paese (con...
Book cover of Esquisses Martiniquaises
by Lafcadio Hearn
Language: French
Release Date: January 30, 2019

Pendant le voyage qu’il entreprit aux Petites Antilles au cours de l’été 1887, Lafcadio Hearn, débarquant à la Martinique, fut immédiatement sensible à l’influence de « ce charme singulier que l’île a toujours exercé sur les étrangers et qui lui a même valu son surnom poétique :...
Book cover of Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan
by Lafcadio Hearn
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013

During late 1891, Hearn obtained a teaching position in Kumamoto, Kyushu, at the Fifth Higher Middle School, where he spent the next three years and completed his book Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan (published 1894). Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (27 June 1850 – 26 September 1904), known also by...
Book cover of The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 1 (The Dunwich Horror, The Tell-Tale Heart, Green Tea, The Monkey's Paw, The Willows, The Shadows on the Wall, and many more!)
by M. R. James, E. F. Benson, H. P. Lovecraft
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal...
Book cover of Nearly Departed

Nearly Departed

Miss Fortune World: Sinful Stories, #1

by Shari Hearn
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018

You're invited to the hottest bash in Sinful, Louisiana. It's Gertie's Tenth Annual Funeral (because why have a funeral after she's gone and can't hear all the good things people say about her?) and she's pulling out all the stops, hoping to make this year's celebration the best one yet. Only...
Book cover of Nearly Beloved

Nearly Beloved

Miss Fortune World: Sinful Stories, #4

by Shari Hearn
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2018

Hell has finally frozen over. Gertie's getting married! Or… is she? When a charming gold-digger by the name of Cliff Dow comes to Sinful and steals from their friend, Marie, the Swamp Team 3 decides to get even by publicly shaming him at the "When Hell Freezes Over" wedding...
Book cover of Leaving Sinful

Leaving Sinful

Miss Fortune World: Sinful Stories, #6

by Shari Hearn
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2018

Amid fears of her location being compromised, Fortune is extricated from Sinful in the middle of the night and relocated to a 55-plus trailer park in the Arizona desert, where she is to pose as the niece of recently deceased Olive, a woman many there think was murdered. Harrison gives her one...
Book cover of Rematch

Rematch

Miss Fortune World: Sinful Stories, #5

by Shari Hearn
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2018

An assassin's life is filled with many challenges. She has to be ready at a moment's notice to drop behind enemy lines and do what is necessary to complete her mission. Even if it means putting on a pair of skates and joining the Sinful Sliders in a rematch to determine once and for all who...
Book cover of Mutiny on the Bayou

Mutiny on the Bayou

Miss Fortune World: Sinful Stories, #2

by Shari Hearn
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018

Gertie and Fortune are sentenced to three days of anger management camp following a fight with Celia outside City Hall. While there they search for clues proving the judge who sentenced them received kickbacks from the company running the camp. But they soon discover a crooked judge is the least of...
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