Hearn, Lafcadio

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...

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, Vol 2 was written in the year 1894 by Lafcadio Hearn. This book is one of the most popular novels of Lafcadio Hearn, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic...

A Japanese magic-lantern show is essentially dramatic. It is a play of which the dialogue is uttered by invisible personages, the actors and the scenery being only luminous shadows. Wherefore it is peculiarly well suited to goblinries and weirdnessess of all kinds; and plays in which ghosts figure...