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Summary: Classic collection of fantasy stories.
Review: LOVE AND DEATH IN NEW ORLEANS . . ."I am conscious they are only trivial," wrote Lafcadio Hearn from New Orleans in 1880 to his friend H. E. Krehbiel, speaking of the weird little sketches he was publishing from time to time in the columns of the Daily Item, the New Orleans newspaper which first gave him employment in the city where he spent the ten years from 1877 to 1887. "But I fancy," he goes an, "that the idea of the fantastics is artistic. They are my impressions of the strange life of New Orleans. They are dreams of a tropical city. There is one twin idea running through them all - Love and Death. And these figures embody the story of life here, as it impresses me." 36 stories by Lafcadio Hearn Introduction by Charles Woodward Hutson Other books in the Wildside Fantasy Classics series (all highly recommended) include: The Witch of Prague, by F. Marion Crawford One of Cleopatra's Nights, by Theophile Gautier Some Chinese Ghosts, by Lafcadio Hearn The Well at World's End, by William Morris The Phantom Ship, by Capt. Frederick Marryat
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Summary: Classic collection of fantasy stories.
Review: LOVE AND DEATH IN NEW ORLEANS . . . "I am conscious they are only trivial," wrote Lafcadio Hearn from New Orleans in 1880 to his friend H. E. Krehbiel, speaking of the weird little sketches he was publishing from time to time in the columns of the Daily Item, the New Orleans newspaper which first gave him employment in the city where he spent the ten years from 1877 to 1887. "But I fancy," he goes an, "that the idea of the fantastics is artistic. They are my impressions of the strange life of New Orleans. They are dreams of a tropical city. There is one twin idea running through them all - Love and Death. And these figures embody the story of life here, as it impresses me." 36 stories by Lafcadio Hearn Introduction by Charles Woodward Hutson Other books in the Wildside Fantasy Classics series (all highly recommended) include: The Witch of Prague, by F. Marion Crawford One of Cleopatra's Nights, by Theophile Gautier Some Chinese Ghosts, by Lafcadio Hearn The Well at World's End, by William Morris The Phantom Ship, by Capt. Frederick Marryat
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