‘The Japanese people are more mysterious than I imagined through Hearn’s books.’ - Albert Einstein

Lafcadio Hearn is the most significant early interpreter of Japan and Japanese culture for the…

"Glimpses Of Unfamiliar Japan: First series" is an ancient Travelogue, Nonfiction story book written by Lafcadio Hearn. Offers a first rate useful resource for studying Japan's cultural historical past and…

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…

This Dover edition, first published in 2019, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published in 1899 by Little, Brown, and Company, Boston.

Setsuko Koizumi (1868-1932) was the daughter of a Japanese samurai family in Matsu?. In 1891 she married a foreigner - Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) - and their union lasted 13 years…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public…

This cookbook by Lefcadio Hearn shows how Creole cooking can be accomplished with simple, careful preparation. Demonstrating the distinctive culinary tastes of the Creole culture of the 1870s and 1880s…

A collection of twenty-eight brilliant and strange stories, inspired by Japanese folk tales and written by renowned Western expatriate Lafcadio Hearn Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was one of the nineteenth century’s…