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This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare's... Read Full Overview

On August 10, 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.
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"Sometimes the swamp-forest visibly thins away from these shores into wastes of reedy morass where, even of breathless nights, the quaggy soil trembles to a sound like thunder of breakers on a coast." Images are expertly imbued into the mind by vivid description. In Chita,... Read Full Overview

"Chita - A Memory of Last Island" from Lafcadio Hearn. International writer, known best for his books about Japan (1850-1904).

有时在秋天的傍晚，当天堂的空洞像圣杯的内部一样燃烧，海浪和云团在碎金的狂野狂风中飞扬时，您可能会看到黄褐色的草皮上覆盖着像皮的东西，... Read Full Overview

This is an unusual exotic novel of coastal Louisiana, unique in the local color movement for its impressionistic use of the southern landscape. Introduction by Arlin Turner.

Originally published in 1969.

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On August 10, 1856, the Last Island hurricane ravaged the Louisiana coast, claimed at least 183 lives, and split an island in two, officially known as Isle Derni re, but commonly referred to as Last Island. A ship, The Star, was scheduled to pick up vacationers, but ended up... Read Full Overview

Travelling south from New Orleans to the Islands, you pass through a strange land into a strange sea, by various winding waterways. You can journey to the Gulf by lugger if you please; but the trip may be made much more rapidly and agreeably on some one of those light, narrow... Read Full Overview