Shadowings
Unknown · 1900
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Description
Shadowings is a book of Japanese tales and studies by Lafcadio Hearn, lecturer on English literature in the Imperial University at Tokyo. It was printed at Boston by Little, Brown and Company, with copyright in 1900. Hearn also wrote Exotics and Retrospectives and In Ghostly Japan. The book is in three parts: Stories from Strange Books, Japanese Studies, and Fantasies.
The studies that follow treat the cicada, Japanese female names, and old Japanese songs. The plates show the many kinds of sémi, the singing insects of Japan. The Fantasies close the book with short pieces: Noctilucae, A Mystery of Crowds, Gothic Horror, Levitation, Nightmare-Touch, Readings from a Dream-Book and In a Pair of Eyes. The volume is Hearn's Japan in miniature: ghost tale, nature study and dream prose in one cover.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1900 |
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 258 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |