Inventing New Orleans: Writings of Lafcadio Hearn

by Lafcadio Hearn

Book Overview

Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) prowled the streets of New Orleans from 1877 to 1888 before moving on to a new life and global fame as a chronicler of Japan. Hearn's influence on our perceptions of New Orleans, however, has unjustly remained unknown.

In ten years of serving as a correspondent and selling his writing in such periodicals as the New Orleans Daily Item, Times-Democrat, Harper's Weekly, and Scribner's Magazine...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578063531
• ISBN13: 9781578063536
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"