Japanese Ghost Stories
$23.69
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
5 December 2023
Summary
New in Penguin Japanese Classics
Ghost Stories from a Master Recounter of the Macabre
Introducing Penguin Japanese Classics—a collection of some of Japan’s most celebrated and groundbreaking 20th-century writers, with covers inspired by Japanese art and design. Taking us from a sun-drenched affair in a seaside town to an underground ‘ark’ full of shadows and eccentrics, with stops at mountains of skulls, lonely apartments, and boarding school …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241675298 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241675294 |
| Author: | Lafcadio Hearn, Paul Murray |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 5 December 2023 |
| Weight: | 193g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Japanese Classics |
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About The Author
Lafcadio Hearn
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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