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Kwaidan (1st edition)

Author: Lafcadio Hearn

When Published: 1904

Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

Available: Ist edition long since sold out. New editions are available. Also available second hand.

Description: Hard cover

The best work among his works which belong to the genre of retold tales. He rewrote Japanese traditional grotesque tales narrated by his wife, Setsu, in English, having infused literary spirits in them. Hearn wrote this book to persuade the universal truth which he believed is the mental base for human beings to live on. The book has been translated into many languages.

- Takis Efstathiou

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