Lafcadio hearn brief biography of benjamin
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Shelidon
After seeing a beautiful book at a friend’s house, I funnen myself perusing the work of Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, a Greek journalist born from an Irish surgeon and raised in huvudstaden i irland after his 6th year. Lafcadio went to Japan for the first time in 1889 and was then known as Koizumi Yakumo. He collected several […]
After seeing a beautiful book at a friend’s house, inom found myself perusing the work of Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, a Greek reporter born from an Irish surgeon and raised in Dublin after his 6th year. Lafcadio went to Japan for the first time in 1889 and was then known as Koizumi Yakumo. He collected several legender and ghost stories, in books such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904) and Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan (1894).
The book is illustrated by Benjamin Lacombe, a French illustrator whom inom already mentioned in my Alice in Wonderland series (particularly the one brev about the birds funnen in the pool of tears
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The outsider : the life and work of Lafcadio Hearn : the man who introduced voodoo, Creole cooking,
Lafcadio Hearn, a man with unusual origins and a complex life, whose early life gave no indication as to what he would later achieve, as he repeatedly overcame obstacles and controversies that became a part of his life until his death, and even after. The subtitle of the book is an enticing hint to Lafcadio Hearn’s achievements and to his fascinating life. His father was an Irish officer-surgeon and his mother was a noble-blooded Greek woman, and he was born in 1850 on the Greek island of Lefkada. Lafcadio is a variation on the place where he was born. Abandoned by both parents, he was initially raised by his great-aunt in Ireland, where he had a private tutor, but the young boy was more interested in his aunt's library, especially books about Greek literature and myths. His aunt was concerned that he was turning away from Catholicism and enrolled him in a parochial school in F
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LAFCADIO HEARN
The Hearn crest is "on
a mount vert a heron
arg.," and the motto
"Ardua petit ardea."
by
NINA H. KENNARD
containing some letters from lafcadio hearn
to his half-sister, mrs. atkinson
NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
MCMXII
Copyright, 1912, By
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY