Lafcadio Hearn

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil. In this haunting collection, the phantoms and ghouls of Japanese folklore stalk the page. Lafcadio Hearn, a master storyteller, drew on traditional Japanese folklore, infused with memories of his own haunted childhood in Ireland, to create these chilling tales. They are today regarded in Japan as classics in their own right.'The stories occupy the reverie world our mind projects onto the backs of our eyelids, where the ordinary mingles with the supernatural' - Wall Street Journal

"Even as she screamed, her voice became thin, like a crying of wind; then she melted into a bright white mist that spired to the roof beams. Never again was she seen." Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan (which means "ghost story" in Japanese) is the first and most famous collection of Japanese yokai stories ever published. This unforgettable collection of 17 eerie tales and 3 original cultural studies by Hearn are based on traditional oral tales passed down for generations. They are fresh reminders of the dark and mysterious corners of the Japanese psyche, from popular representations in anime, manga and video games to Masaki Kobayashi's Oscar-nominated horror film Kwaidan. This new edition includes over 20 full-color woodblock prints that showcase the rich visual tradition of Japanese Yokai. A new foreword by Michael Dylan Foster, the leading Western expert on Yokai literature, places the stories in context and explains the lasting importance of Hearn's pioneering look at Japan's bewitching spirit world. The stories in this volume include:"Yuki-onna" — A ghostly woman saves a man during a fierce snowstorm then gives him a deadly warning… "The Story of Mimi-Nashi-Hoichi" — A musician is unwittingly called upon by a Samurai to perform for the dead, with bloody consequences." Diplomacy" — A Samurai warrior avoids the ghostly revenge of a man he intends to kill by outsmarting him before striking he strikes the death blow. Hearn is the best-known early Western interpreter of Japanese culture and was particularly interested in tales of the supernatural. He eagerly gathered "delicate, transparent, ghostly sketches" in his adopted land and translated them with gusto. His English versions were translated back into Japanese and are considered classics of Japanese literature to this day—eagerly devoured by Japanese school children.

In Ghostly Japanis a collection of supernatural and ghost stories, short pieces and folktales from Japan. Through these spooky stories, the author also analyses parts of the Japanese culture, dealing with philosophical and spiritual musing on the supernatural stories of Japan. Table of Contents: - Furisod - Incense - A Story of Divination - Silkworms - A Passional Karma - Footprints of the Buddha - Ululation - Bits of Poetry - Japanese Buddhist Proverbs - Suggestion - Ingwa-banashi - Story of a Tengu - At Yaidzu

This book "" Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation "", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.

In 1924, Lafcadio Hearn took his love of culture and myth and introduced us to the world of Japanese folklore with Kwaidan, his own collection of ghost stories. In this classic volume, you'll find tales that are hauntingly lyrical and complex. Japanese demons that eat flesh. Ghostly brides returning for their lovers. Lafcadio Hearn's ghost stories have become a fixture in the world of Japanese lore and superstition, offering us an eerie taste of what goes bump in the night. A blind performer plays for an audience of ghosts. A maiden reincarnates to search for her beloved. A nurse offers the ultimate sacrifice for her young charge. And a group of rokurokubi plot to end the life of a noble samurai. These classic tales celebrating Japanese culture are far different from our modern-day horror stories. Whether you're in the mood for phantoms, demons, ghouls, or ghosts, these otherworldly tales will haunt you long after you've finished reading.

NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERS Books And Habits: From The Lectures Of Lafcadio Hearn Selected And Edited With An Introduction By John Erskine This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions. 2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work. We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING

New Orleans in 1878 was the most exotic and cosmopolitan city in North America. An international port, with more than 200,000 inhabitants, it was open to French, Spanish, Mexican, South American, and West Indian cultural influences, and home to a thriving population descended from free African Americans. It was also a battleground in the fight against yellow fever (malaria) and in the political upheavals that followed the end of Reconstruction. The continued influx of Anglo-Americans and the renewed ascendancy of white supremacists threatened to overwhelm the local blend of languages, races, and cultures that enlivened the unique Creole character of the city. Writing for an English-language newspaper, Lafcadio Hearn presented the speech, charm, and humor of the Creolized natives on the other side of Canal Street, and illustrated his sketches with woodcut cartoons - the first of their kind in any Southern paper. These vignettes, published in the New Orleans Daily Item during 1878-1880, capture a traditionalist urban world and its colorful characters with a delicate and sympathetic understanding.

ELASID KORD pisikeses Jaapani külas vaene talunik ja tema naine, kes olid väga head inimesed. Neil oli palju lapsi ja kõige noorem poeg joonistas kogu aeg kasse. Poiss nägi neid nii unes kui ka ilmsi ... Lafcadio Hearni peetakse üheks suurtest kultuuride vahendajatest, kes aitasid 20. sajandi alguse läänemaailmas jaapani kultuuri tutvustada. Tema loomingut on tõlgitud paljudesse keeltesse. Hearni teisitimõtlejalik ja individualistlik loomus hakkas end ilmutama juba varakult. 1869. aastal maksis vanatädi kinni ta reisi Ameerikasse, kus Hearnist sai tõlkija ja hinnatud ajakirjanik. 1890. aastal emigreerus ta Jaapanisse, töötas seal esialgu keeleõpetajana ja abiellus oma elu armastuse Koizumi Setsuga. Pärast abiellumist võttis Hearn endale nimeks Koizumi Yakumo.1896. aastal sai Hearnist Tokyo Keiserliku Ülikooli inglise kirjanduse professor. Ta suri Tokyos 1904. aastal ja temast jäi maha muljetavaldav kirjandusalane elutöö üleilmastumise algusaastatest. Veel tänapäevalgi peavad paljud jaapanlased teda üheks endi seast. Anita Kreituse armus Jaapanisse juba nooruses. Jaapani kunsti ainulaadsus mõjutas kunstniku loomingut ja ta on karjääri jooksul loonud mitu Jaapani-teemalist seeriat. Seegi teos on suurepärane näide kunstniku erilisest suhtest Jaapaniga. Selles muinasjutus, mille tõi 1897. aastal Euroopasse jaapani kultuuri austaja Lafcadio Hearn, leidub kaks illustraatorile väga südamelähedast motiivi: Jaapan ja kassid. Anita Kreitusele on alati huvi pakkunud loodusega kooskõlas elamine ja isiksuse kujunemine. Iidsete Jaapani traditsioonide kohaselt on inimene osa loodusest. Elusolendite ja neid ümbritseva vahel vastasseisu ei ole. Raamatu teine oluline väärtus seisneb muutumises: poiss, kes on loo alguses väike ja nõrk, saab loo lõpus tugevaks ja iseseisvaks, sest jääb kõigile raskustele vaatamata truuks hingelähedastele väärtustele. Visuaalses jutustuses on tähtis roll mütoloogilisel kassil, kes ei puudu üheltki pildilt. Kass järgneb poisile kõikjale ja aitab tal soovitud eesmärgini jõuda. "Poiss, kes joonistas kasse" on raamat, kus pildikeel põimub looga ja illustratsioonidest saab otsekui eraldiseisev sisuliin, mis julgustab iga lugejat/vaatajat seda omamoodi tõlgendama. Raamatu illustraator mainiti "Poiss, kes joonistas kasse" illustratsioonide eest ära Läti iga-aastasel raamatukujundusvõistlusel Kuldne Ounapuu. Läti lugemise edendamise programmi laste zhürii viieaastaste ja vanemate laste rühm hindas selle programmi parimaks raamatuks. Raadiojaam Deutschlandfunk valis raamatu saksakeelse väljaande 2021. aasta oktoobris seitsme parima teose hulka.

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This handsome 5-volume box set contains more than 70 terrifying short stories from the masters of cosmic horror. Unspeakable evils, elder gods, and forgotten terrors haunt the pages within this collection. Whether telling of the emergence of the tentacled Cthulhu in "The Call of Cthulhu" or the rise of an ancient pagan deity in "The Great God Pan", the stories found here are the stuff of nightmares. This collection includes these brilliant and horrifying tales: • The Call of the Cthulhu and Other Stories by H. P. Lovecraft• The Haunter of the Ring and Other Stories by Robert E. Howard•The Black Seal and Other Stories by Arthur Machen• Yuki-Onna and Other Stories by Lafcadio Hearn• The Yellow Sign and Other Stories by Robert W. Chambers With vibrant graphic cover designs, these editions make wonderful collectibles for any classic literature lover, encased in a decorative box set. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Arcturus Classic Collections series features delightful, high-quality paperback box sets of classic works of literature with striking contemporary cover designs.

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