Lafcadio Hearn

Japan's Great Interpreter : a New Anthology of His Writings, 1894-1904

Autori

• Lafcadio Hearn

Parametri

• 324 pagine
• 12 ore di lettura

• Biografie

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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.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 1992

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