INTRODUCTION
Lafcadio Hearn, known to Nippon as Yakumo Koizumi,
was born in Leucadia in the Ionian Islands, June 27,
1850. His father was an Irish surgeon in the
British Army; his mother was a G...
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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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The Romance of the Milky Way
Lafcadio Hearn
(Patricio) Lafcadio (Tessima Carlos) Hearn