OUT OF THE EAST: Reveries and Studies in New Japan [Paperback]

Lafcadio Hearn (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2006

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 he never left. This 1910 collection of essays Hearn, in his inimitable warmly intimate style, shares languid Japanese fairy tales, introduces us to his university students and their delightful writings on childhood, explores the Asian delicacy toward love and romance even in literature, and much more. Elegant and fascinating, Hearn's outsider's look at what was then and remains in many ways today a culture alien to Western minds is a classic of travel journalism and cultural study. _____________________________ ALSO FROM COSIMO Hearn's Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life, Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation, and Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Cosimo Classics (December 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1602060312
• ISBN-13: 978-1602060319
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,332,382 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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