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Professor Lafcadio Hearn
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…
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Published circa 1885, this pioneering work compiles the recipes of New Orleans into one volume. Celebrating the range of ethnic influences on Creole cuisine, the book contains recipes for many…
Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), also known as Koizumi Yakumo after gaining Japanese citizenship, was an author, best known for his books about Japan. He is especially well-known for his collections…
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…
Subtitle: Stories Reconstructed Form the Anvari-Soheli, Baitl Pachs, Mahabharata, Pantchatantra, Gulistan, Talmud, Kalewa, Etc Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Publication date: 1912 Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Fairy Tales, Folklore
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1890 Original Publisher: Harper
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…
The alternate drinking of rice-wine, by bridegroom and bride, from the same vessels, corresponds in a sort to the Roman confarreatio. By the wedding-rite the bride is adopted into the…
Glimpses Of Unfamiliar Japan V2 is a book written by Lafcadio Hearn, originally published in 1894. The book is a collection of essays and observations about Hearn's experiences in Japan…
Originally published in 1927. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these…
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The Shelf2Life Literature and Fiction Collection is a unique set of short stories, poems and novels from the late 19th to early 20th centuries. From tales of love, life and…
BY LAFCADIO HEARN SELECTED AND EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOHN ERSKINE, PH. D. PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LONDbN WILLIAM HEINEMANN COPYRIGHT, 191T BY MITCHELL McDONALD PRINTED IN…
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In 1889 Westerner PATRICK LAFCADIO HEARN (1850-1904)-bohemian, newspaper writer, restless traveler-arrived in Japan on a journalistic assignment, and he fell so in love with the nation and its people that…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Japanese tales, translated by Lafcadio Hearn.
There seems to be a sense of divine magic in the very atmosphere, through all the luminous day, brooding over the vapoury land, over the ghostly blue of the flood–a…
Contents: Question in the Zen Texts; Introduction to Buddhism; Higher Buddhism; Nirvana; Dust; Within the Circle; By Force of Karma; Idea of Preexistence; Pilgrimage to Enoshima; Ancient Cult; Religion of…
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Publisher: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books…
