Lafcadio Hearn: 132 books

Kokoro, meaning "heart," "spirit," and “way of being” is a fitting title for this 1896 collection, for these fifteen essays focus on the interior life of Japan and its people.  Hearn's insights into Japan’s soul are unmatched by any Westerner, and his portraits of individual Japanese are as profound as his long essays on the civilization.

Written while was Hearn was a professor of English literature at the Imperial University of Tokyo, A Japanese Miscellany (1901) contains three sections: “Strange Stories,””Folklore Gleanings,”(with its beautiful dragonfly illustrations), and “Studies Here and There,” which looks at unusual...

This collection of essays, individually published between 1915 and 1917, originated as lectures Hearn delivered to Japanese students at the University of Tokyo. They constitute one of the first attempts by a Western critic to interpret Western culture to the East. Chapters are dedicated to Western attitudes to women, poetry, the Bible, and an overview of Western literary influences.  

This 1899 collection of essays contains some chilling ghost stories, but it is primarily a study of the cultural significance of ghosts and the occult in Japan.  Hearn's astonishing ability to penetrate a foreign sensibility and convey a portion of its mysterious essence to Western readers, without in the process traducing his subject, is alluring.

The six stories in this captivating collection, published in 1887, are retellings of classical Chinese myths and legends. In his preface, Hearn writes that he "sought especially for 'weird beauty' in these phantom tales." Among those included are “The Soul of the Great Bell,” the story of a young...

This series of letters from Hearn to an older friend, Henry Watkin, details his literary ambitions and the extent to which Japan and the East gripped his imagination even from a comparatively young age—*The New York Times* said the book reveals interesting aspects of the author, who signed his name as a “pen-and-ink drawing of a raven.”

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A su nueva tierra adoptiva, el Japón, el autor le dedicó una docena de imprescindible volúmenes. Sin injusticia alguna se le considera un excelente narrador y el introductor de las culturas de oriente, en especial la japonesa, en Europa y América, donde sus libros alcanzaron un notable éxito....

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