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An American miscellany / by Lafcadio Hearn ; articles and stories now first collected by Albert Mordell.
LIBRA 824 H358A v.1-2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dodd, Mead and Company, 1924.
- Contents:
- v. 1: The cedar closet
- Giglampz
- Violent cremation
- Valentine vagaries
- The restless dead
- Some strange experience
- A bird store reverie
- Notes on the utilization of human remains
- The demi-monde of the antique world
- The poisoners
- Levee life
- Dolly-an idyll of the levee
- Banjo Jim's story
- Butterfly fantasies
- Frost fancies
- Steeple climbers
- A romantic incident at the musical club
- Some pictures of poverty.
- v. 2 : Face studies
- Progressive living
- Frankness
- Frauds
- A Mephistophelian
- Something about success
- Nightmare and nightmare legends
- Philosophy of imaginative art
- Subhadra
- The dead wife
- St. Brandan's Christmas
- Bidasari
- Torn letters
- Three dreams
- A lily in the mouth of hell
- The piper of Hamelin
- Saint Malo
- The garden of paradise
- Gustave Doré
- Doré's Raven
- The life of stars
- The destiny of solar systems
- The great "I am"
- A Concord compromise
- The Creole patois
- Some notes on Creole literature
- The scientific value of Creole
- A sketch of the Creole patois
- The scenes of Cable's romances
- The last of the New Orleans fencing masters
- The last of the voudoos
- New Orleansd superstitions
- A study of half-breed race in the West Indies
- West Indian society of many colorings
- A winter journey to Japan.
- Notes:
- Verso of t.p.: Vail-Ballou Press, Inc., Binghamton and New York.
- OCLC:
- 432412799
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