Chita: A Memory of Last Island

by Lafcadio Hearn

Overview

Chita: A Memory of Last Island, is many of the old classic books which have been considered important throughout the human history. They are now extremely scarce and very expensive antique. So that this work is never forgotten we republish these books in high quality, using the original text and artwork so that they can be preserved for the present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789355346896
Publisher:	Alpha Edition
Publication date:	10/08/2021
Pages:	70
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.17(d)

About the Author

Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was a writer, critic, amateur engraver, and journalist. He wrote extensively about the cultures of Louisiana and is considered the first major Western chronicler of Japanese culture. His many books include La Cuisine Creole: A Collection of Culinary Recipes (1885), Gombo Zhebes (1885), Chita (1889), and Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan (1894). Delia LaBarre is an independent scholar of Lafcadio Hearn and Louisiana culture. Jefferson Humphries (1955-2014) was chair of French studies at Louisiana State University and is author of The Puritan and the Cynic: The Literary Moralist in America and France and editor of Conversations with Reynolds Price, the latter published by University Press of Mississippi.

Table of Contents

	Preface	VII
	Introduction	XVII
Part I	The Legend of L'Ile Derniere	3
Part II	Out of the Sea's Strength	34
Part III	The Shadow of the Tide	70