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In Ghostly Japan
In Ghostly Japan
In Ghostly Japan
In Ghostly Japan
In Ghostly Japan
In Ghostly Japan
In Ghostly Japan
In Ghostly Japan

In Ghostly Japan

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Product Code:
2095-01
ISBN
978-619-01-0202-1
SKU
16.0201
Year
05-03-2018
Translation
From English: Ognyana Ivanova
Pages
288
Size
120/165 мм
Weight
0.41 kg
Collection
Колекция "Малките големи книги"
Cover Type
Hardcover
Genre
Japan, Eastern Fiction Books, Samurais, Gift Books, Fairy Tales, Short Stories, Adventure Novels, Young Adult Novels,

Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn

Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904), known also by the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo (小泉 八雲), was an international writer, known best for his books about Japan, especially his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. In the United States, Hearn is also known for his writings about the city of New Orleans based on his ten-year stay in …

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Lafcadio Hearn's fascinating and unsettling ghost stories are a reinterpretation of oriental legends, and folktales. They are a potent blend of weird beauty and horror. 

Hearn, who referred to his narratives as 'stories and studies of strange things', believed that the spectral world was part of the oriental landscape. Lakes, mountains, ruined castles and terraced fields were the natural locale of ghostly spirits, and their intervention in human affairs was part of the natural order of things. Hearn's apparitions are not a violent intrusion upon everyday reality; they are already a part of that reality, co-existing with the living. 

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