Kwaidan: Stories of Ghosts and Other Strange Things

Kwaidan: Stories of Ghosts and Other Strange Things - Paperback

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Kwaidan: Stories of Ghosts and Other Strange Things - Paperback

Kwaidan: Stories of Ghosts and Other Strange Things - Paperback

by Lafcadio Hearn
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by Lafcadio Hearn (Author), Ruskin Bond (Introduction by)

A classic collection of spooky stories about spirits and goblins from ancient Japan.

In the late 1800s, Lafcadio Hearn collected and retold strange and wonderful ghostly tales from old Japanese legends. In these stories, a blind poet must perform for members of a dead royal family; an old man gives up his life in exchange for blossoms on a wilting cherry tree; a man trying to comfort a strange woman crying in the dark recoils in horror on seeing her face; and a mandarin duck haunts the hunter who shot her companion.

These are timeless and hair-raising stories in which humans and ghostly creatures co-exist. This new edition, with an introduction by Ruskin Bond, will leave readers spellbound.

Number of Pages: 144
Dimensions: 0.31 x 7.99 x 5.24 IN
Publication Date: February 10, 2018
ISBN9789387693036
Author Lafcadio Hearn
PublisherSpeaking Tiger Books
GenreYoung adult
FormatPaperback
PublishedFebruary 2018
LanguageENG- English
Pages144
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults and Adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn was born in Greece, eventually settling in Cincinnati where he became the city's best-known crime reporter but was fired after marrying a black woman. Devastated, he moved to New Orleans, where he championed French Creole and Caribbean culture and created the city's image as a place of voodoo and debauchery. Hearn arrived in Japan at a time of historic change. Sent there as a correspondent, over the next dozen years, he published 15 books on his adopted home and emerged as the leading writer on Japan and Japanese culture.

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