Author : Lafcadio Hearn
Release : 1992
Genre : Americans
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 028/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Lafcadio Hearn by : Lafcadio Hearn
Download or read book Lafcadio Hearn written by Lafcadio Hearn. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Lafcadio Hearn's writings, including ghost stories and letters, is published to mark the centenary of Hearn's arrival in Japan. Hearn was the son of an Anglo-Irish surgeon major in the British army and a Greek mother and became famous as one of Japan's great interpreters, at a time when Japan was undergoing dramatic social change as a result of the modernization programme begun in the 1860s.