Product Description: The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 2 By Elizabeth Bisland

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Elizabeth Bisland (1861-1929) was an American author. She was an assistant editor at Cosmopolitan magazine in New York. When the newspaper's owner, John Brisben Walker, heard about Nellie Bly's trip around the world, he decided that he would make it a two-woman race. Bisland travelled west by train to San Francisco, then took a ship to the Orient. Her works include: In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World (1891), The Secret Life: Being the Book of a Heretic (1906) and The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn (1906).

Product Description: One rarely comes across a sweeter, more candid and straightforward story than “A Candle of Understanding” by Elizabeth Bisland. It is a tale of the development of a fine character from childhood to mature womanhood, and it never fails to amuse in the telling of even trivial incidents of domestic routine, while it furnishes a true and touching picture of life in Louisiana after the war and about the time of the invasion of the carpet-baggers...read more

Product Description: The war has manifestly had its effect, if not on the thought, at least on the manner of Elizabeth Bisland (Mrs. Wetmore). In "The Case of John Smith: His Heaven and His Hell", she lays aside the tendency to epigram which marked her book, "At the Sign of the Hobby Horse," and becomes simple to a degree...read more

Product Description: "A book of untrammelled thought on living topics... extraordinarily interesting." —Philadelphia Press. "Excellent style, quaint humor, and shrewd philosophy." —Review of Reviews. * * * * Contents L'Enfant Terrible An Optimistic Cynic A Poet Sheep-rancher An Eaten Cake Concerning Elbows on the Table An Autumn Impulse John-a'-Dreams The Fountain of Salmacis Two Siegfrieds A Door Ajar At Time of Death The Curse of Babel The Fourth Dimension The Ant and the Lark The Doppelganger "A Young Man's Fancy" An Arabian Looking-glass The Cry of the Women The Beauty of Cruelty The Duke of Wellington's Trees The Boy with the Goose A God Indeed A Question of Skulls The Modern Woman and Marriage The Ideal Husband A New Law of Health "Dead, Dead, Dead'' Verbal Magic Hamlet Ghosts Amateur Saints The Zeitgeist The Abdication of Man Life Portable Property Are American Parents Selfish? A Question of Heredity The Little Dumb Brother Fever Dreams A Misunderstood Moralist The Pleasures of Pessimism Moral Pauperism On a Certain Lack of Humour in Frenchmen The Value of a Soul A Grateful Spaniard Bores Emotions and Oxydization Abelard to Heloise Heloise to Abelard Yumei Mujitsu The Real Thing "Oh, Eloquent, Just, and Mighty Death" "Philistia, be Thou Glad of Me" "Oh King, Live Forever!" The Little Room Aftermat...read more

Product Description: "The very Devil's in the moon for mischief: There's not a day, the longest, not the twenty-first of June, Sees half the mischief in a quiet way On which three single hours of moonlight smile." At my age, alas! one no longer gets into mischief, either by moonlight or at midsummer, and yet to-day all the tricksey spirits of the invisible world are supposed to be abroad--tangling the horses' manes, souring the milkmaid's cream, setting lovers by the ears...read more

Product Description: Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) was a French novelist and short story writer who is counted among the greatest Western writers. Flaubert was considered to be a master of style, obsessively devoted to finding the right word ("le mot juste"), in every piece of literature he produced...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more