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Lafcadio Hearn, Paul Murray - Japanese Ghost Stories, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Japanese Ghost Stories

Av Lafcadio Hearn, Paul Murray

Del i serien Japanese Classics

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The dead wreak revenge on the living, paintings come alive, spectral brides possess mortal men and a priest devours human flesh in these chilling Japanese ghost stories retold by a master of the supernatural. Lafcadio Hearn drew on the phantoms and ghouls of traditional Japanese folklore - including the headless 'rokuro-kubi', the monstrous goblins 'jikininki' or the faceless 'mujina' who stalk lonely neighbourhoods - and infused them with his own memories of his haunted childhood in nineteenth-century Ireland to create these terrifying tales of striking and eerie power. Today they are regarded in Japan as classics in their own right.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2023-11-02
  • Mått: 128 x 197 x 14 mm
  • Vikt: 193 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Japanese Classics
  • Antal sidor: 256
  • Förlag: Penguin Books Ltd
  • ISBN: 9780241675298
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The improbable life story of Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) included a peculiarly gothic childhood in Ireland during which he was successively abandoned by his mother, his father and his guardian; two decades in the United States, where he worked as a journalist and was sacked for marrying a former slave; and a long period in Japan, where he married a Japanese woman and wrote about Japanese society and aesthetics for a Western readership. His ghost stories, which were drawn from Japanese folklore and influenced by Buddhist beliefs, appeared in collections throughout the 1890s and 1900s. He is a much celebrated figure in Japan.

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