The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 1
Elizabeth Bisland, a journalist who had known Lafcadio Hearn in New Orleans, published The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn in 1906, two years after his death in Japan. This first volume opens with her biographical sketch of his wandering life, from a lonely childhood in Ireland through his hard apprenticeship as a reporter in Cincinnati and New Orleans to his years as a writer in Japan, and it weaves in autobiographical fragments by Hearn himself. The letters that follow begin in 1877, written from New Orleans to the music critic Henry Krehbiel and others, and show the self-taught stylist working out his tastes, his reading and his ambitions. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first letters are free.
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What kind of book is The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 1?
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