Chita A Memory Of Last Island
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Chita A Memory Of Last Island
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Author : Lafcadio Hearn
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-05-28
Chita A Memory Of Last Island written by Lafcadio Hearn and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-28 with Fiction categories.
Chita: A Memory of Last Island is a novella by Lafcadio Hearn. Based on the hurricane of 1856, we follow a group of people struggling for survival amongst a deadly and destructive tropical cyclone.
Chita A Memory Of Lasi Island
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Author : Lafcadio Hearn
language : en
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Release Date : 2012-01
Chita A Memory Of Lasi Island written by Lafcadio Hearn and has been published by Hardpress Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01 with categories.
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Chita
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Author : Lafcadio Hearn
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 1889
Chita written by Lafcadio Hearn and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Fathers and daughters categories.
Chita
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Author : Lafcadio Hearn
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-05-25
Chita written by Lafcadio Hearn and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-25 with categories.
"[...]fogs, -sometimes, again, steering by that Star of Evening which in our sky glows like another moon, and drops over the silent lakes as she passes a quivering trail of silver fire. Shadows lengthen; and at last the woods dwindle away behind you into thin bluish lines;-land and water alike take more luminous color;-bayous open into broad passes;-lakes link themselves with sea-bays;-and the ocean-wind bursts upon you, -keen, cool, and full of light. For the first time the vessel begins to swing, -rocking to the great living pulse of the tides. And gazing from the deck around you, with no forest walls to break the view, it will seem to you that the low land must have once been rent asunder by the sea, and strewn about the Gulf in fantastic tatters.... Sometimes above a waste of wind-blown prairie-cane you see an oasis emerging, -a ridge or hillock heavily umbraged with the rounded foliage of evergreen oaks: -a cheniere. And from the shining flood also kindred green knolls arise, -pretty islets, each with its beach-girdle of dazzling sand and shells, yellow-white, -and all radiant with semi-tropical foliage, myrtle and palmetto, orange and magnolia. Under their emerald shadows curious little villages of [...]."
Chit
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Author : Lafcadio Hearn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-06
Chit written by Lafcadio Hearn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06 with Fiction categories.
Lafcadio Hearn lived an eventful life -- he was born on a Greek island to a British father and a mother of noble Kytheran-Greek lineage; as a small child he was sent home to be raised in Ireland by relatives. As a young man, he went to Ohio, where he found work as a newsman, and eventually wrote morbidly yellow journalism, eventually becoming known for "florid accounts of local murders, developing a reputation as the paper's premier sensational journalist." (Quoth Wikipedia.) He moved to New Orleans, where he wrote of local culture, and his cookbooks are still well-known. He went to the Caribbean, and wrote books on that as well. And then he moved to Japan, and that's where he did the work that everyone remembers, even now. The last fifteen years of his life produced books like "Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan," "Out of the East: Reveries and Studies in New Japan," "Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life," "Gleanings in Buddha-Fields: Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East," "The Boy Who Drew Cats," "Exotics and Retrospectives," "Japanese Fairy Tales," "In Ghostly Japan," "Shadowings," "Kotto: Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs," "Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things," "Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation," and "The Romance of the Milky Way and Other Studies and Stories." "And" he was a teacher at several colleges in Japan while he wrote those. Quite a life. This book contains three stories, "The Legend of L'Ile Derniere," "Out of the Sea's Strength," and "The Shadow of the Tide." Great stuff; we envy you the opportunity to read them for the first time.
Chita
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Author : Lafcadio Hearn
language : en
Publisher: Nabu Press
Release Date : 2013-09
Chita written by Lafcadio Hearn and has been published by Nabu Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
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Chita
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Author : Lafcadio Hearn
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 1889
Chita written by Lafcadio Hearn and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Fiction categories.
On 10 August 1856 the Gulf of Mexico reared up and hurled itself over Last Island, near New Orleans. The storm essentially split the island in half and swept much of it away, including its inhabitants, wealthy vacationers, and its resort hotel. There were few survivors. Lafcadio Hearn used these basic historical facts to create Chita. Originally published in 1889, this long out-of-print novella is a minor masterpiece that is by turns mysterious, mesmerizing, and tragic. In the aftermath of the storm, a Spanish fisherman wades into the Gulf to pick through debris. Among the bodies, he finds one that is yet alive, a young Creole girl. Her parents are presumed to have died in the storm. Raised by the fisherman's family, Chita grows into a strong, independent young woman. Her story is counterpointed by that of her lost father, a doctor who thinks that his daughter is dead and, as a result, devotes himself to helping others in need. When he comes to Last Island to help stem a yellow fever epidemic, he encounters Chita. The consequences are devastating. This beautifully lush, ornately styled tale of south Louisiana in the nineteenth century is a haunting novel that is both impressionistic in its evocation of nature and realistic in its characterizations and depictions of life in this region. Jefferson Humphries' introduction puts Chita in perspective, gives an overview of critical reactions to the novel from its initial publication to the present, and provides a capsule biography of Hearn and a commentary on the stylistic influences on his work. 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. She lives in Baton Rouge. Jefferson Humphries is chair of French studies at Louisiana State University and the author of The Puritan and the Cynic: The Literary Moralist in America and France.
Chita
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Author : Lafcadio Hearn
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
Chita written by Lafcadio Hearn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with categories.
Chita
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Author : Lafcadio Hearn
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2018-02-14
Chita written by Lafcadio Hearn and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-14 with categories.
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Chita
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Author : Lafcadio Hearn
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2015-09-01
Chita written by Lafcadio Hearn and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-01 with categories.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.