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Author : Jonathan Cott
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 12,61 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Best remembered for his writings on Japan, where he settled in 1890, Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) is too often pigeonholed as a decadent aesthete or a stylist of overripe prose. Interweaving generous selections from Hearn's own letters, articles, essays, confessions and stories in this moving, superlative biography, Cott gives us all sides of the man -- the muckraking Cincinnati, Ohio, journalist of Zola-esque realism; the ethnographer of tropical Martinique, Creole folkways in New Orleans and Japanese Buddhism; the mordant humorist; and the unabashed sensualist. The Greek-born, half-Irish bohemian also exposed America's hypocrisies concerning sex and race, prejudices which he experienced firsthand in his short-lived first marriage to a mulatto woman in Ohio. Paradoxically, in coercive, traditional Japan, where he married a submissive young Japanese woman, freewheeling individualist Hearn found his "land of dreams" and felt the spirit of ancient Greece flickering in sacred shrines and groves.

Author : Martin Lim#n
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,9 MB
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1569477817

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Praise for Martin Limón: “It’s great to have these two mavericks back. . . . Mr. Limón writes with . . . wonderful, bleak humor, edged in pain, about GI life.”—The New York Times Book Review “Limón’s crisp, clear storytelling opens a door to another world and leaves one hoping the next installment won’t be so long in arriving.”—The Baltimore Sun “Limón has the military lingo and ambience down to a T. Plot, pacing, and plausibility are just about perfect.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer (editor’s choice) “As usual, Limón paints a picture of Korea in the mid-1970s that is so detailed and richly atmospheric that the reader’s senses are flooded with the sounds, smells, and tastes of the place. Fans of the Sueño-Bascom series, who have been waiting eagerly for a new novel, can relax. It was well worth the wait.”—Booklist (starred review) The only female MP assigned to a base in the DMZ is missing. Has she been abducted, killed, or, possibly, gone AWOL? Eighth Army cops George Sueño and Ernie Bascom, sent to find her, discover a murder that has been concealed, rampant black marketeering and corruption, crooked officers, rioting Korean civilians, and the wandering ghost of a schoolgirl run down by a speeding army truck. It is up to them to right egregious wrongs while being pursued by criminals who want to kill them. Martin Limón is the author of four earlier books in the Sueño-Bascom series. His debut, Jade Lady Burning, was a New York Times Notable Book.

Author : Tao Wong
Publisher : Starlit Publishing
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 39,42 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 177855072X

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“Remember this. One offering, at the beginning of the month, to appease the ghosts that have left the hells. One more offering, at the end of the month." At the end of ghost month, offerings are made for the wandering ghosts released from hell. Accompanying his grandfather, Song and his brother encounter another visitor and trade ghost stories. Sometimes, though, the ghosts aren't just in stories. A short ghost story penned by Tao Wong. Keywords: ghosts, Malaysia, ghost stories, spooky month

Author : Francis Marion Crawford
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 2019-09-22
Category : Fiction
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"Wandering Ghosts" is a collection of weird and horror stories by Francis Marion Crawford. This collection includes stories such as "The Upper Berth", "For the Blood Is the Life", "The Dead Smile", and "The Screaming Skull", which are considered as the true classics of the horror genre. The Dead Smile The Screaming Skull Man Overboard! For the Blood is the Life The Upper Berth By the Water of Paradise The Doll's Ghost

Author : Martin Limón
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 15,22 MB
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 156947527X

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“Easily the best military mysteries in print today.” —Lee Child Corporal Jill Matthewson, the only female military police officer assigned to Camp Casey in the Korean Demilitarized Zone, is missing. US 8th Army CID agent Sergeant George Sueño and his partner, Ernie Bascom, are dispatched to locate her. They find that criminal activity abounds at Camp Casey, from black marketeering to murder. The investigation brings them face-toface with crooked officers, Korean civilians rioting over the death of one of their own, a schoolgirl run down by a speeding army truck, and her ghost, which has been seen wandering the premises.

Author : F. Marion Crawford
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 39,24 MB
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Fiction
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By F. Marion Crawford is a collection of short stories, including ghost stories. Crawford's narratives are infused with mystery and the supernatural, making it a captivating choice for fans of American literature and ghostly tales.

Author : Luis Alberto Urrea
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 27,89 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780816518661

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Fleeing a failed marriage and haunted by ghosts of his past, Luis Alberto Urrea jumped into his car several years ago and headed west. Driving cross-country with a cat named Rest Stop, Urrea wandered the West from one year's Spring through the next. Hiking into aspen forests where leaves "shiver and tinkle like bells" and poking alongside creeks in the Rockies, he sought solace and wisdom. In the forested mountains he learned not only the names of trees—he learned how to live. As nature opened Urrea's eyes, writing opened his heart. In journal entries that sparkle with discovery, Urrea ruminates on music, poetry, and the landscape. With wonder and spontaneity, he relates tales of marmots, geese, bears, and fellow travelers. He makes readers feel mountain air "so crisp you feel you could crunch it in your mouth" and reminds us all to experience the magic and healing of small gestures, ordinary people, and common creatures. Urrea has been heralded as one of the most talented writers of his generation. In poems, novels, and nonfiction, he has explored issues of family, race, language, and poverty with candor, compassion, and often astonishing power. Wandering Time offers his most intimate work to date, a luminous account of his own search for healing and redemption.

Author : F. Crawford
Publisher :
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 23,17 MB
Release : 2014-04-22
Category :
ISBN : 9781499220063

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A classic collection of horror tales, featuring the following:THE DEAD SMILE,THE SCREAMING SKULL,MAN OVERBOARD!,FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE,THE UPPER BERTH,BY THE WATERS OF PARADISE,THE DOLL'S GHOST.