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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.
Contributor:
Mordell, Albert, 1885-1965.
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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