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Description: Lafcadio Hearn was a writer, translator, and journalist who explored the cultures and folklore of Japan, Ireland, and other countries. His works include Kwaidan, In Ghostly Japan, and Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan. This website is dedicated to his life and legacy, featuring biographical information, literary analysis, and online resources.
Lafcadio Hearn's Extended Family
“For I thought of you always as my double: a highly complex nervous organization, with her vital force.” “And you do not remember that dark and beautiful face, with large brown eyes like a wild deer’s, that used to bend above your cradle?” >Lafcadio imparts his vision of his mother with his brother James.
Both brothers, Lafcadio and James Daniel, were born in Greece. Their mother was Greek and their father Irish. Both brothers lived for a time in Ohio. Yet their adult worlds became as far apart literally as East is from West, or as Japan is from Michigan.
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