INTRODUCTION
These chapters, for the most part, are reprinted from
Lafcadio Hearn’s “Interpretations of Literature,”
1915, from his “Life and Literature,”
1916, and from ...
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Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), European-born American author, wrote novels and articles with exotic themes in highly precise and polished prose.Lafcadio Hearn was born June 27, 1850, on the Greek island ...
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Patricio Lafcadio Tessima Carlos Hearn led an exotic and restless life from his birth on an island off the coast of Greece until his death in Japan fifty-four years later. He lived in loneliness in Ir...
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Born on the Ionian island of Lafcadio to Rosa Cassimati, a young woman of Greek descent, and Charles Bush Hearn, an Irish military surgeon in the service of the British army, Lafcadio Hearn's life was...
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At the turn of the century Lafcadio Hearn was considered one of the finest prose stylists in the United States. His enormous output ranges from early articles written for Cincinnati newspapers to a se...
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Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn
Lafcadio Hearn
(Patricio) Lafcadio (Tessima Carlos) Hearn