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The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 1
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Elizabeth Bisland
Livre broché | Anglais
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Lafcadio Hearn was born on the twenty- seventh of June, in the year 1850. He was a native of the Ionian Isles, the place of his birth being the Island of Santa Maura, which is commonly called in modern Greek Levkas, or Lefcada, a corruption of the name of the old Leucadia, which was famous as the place of Sappho's selfdestruction. This island is separated from the western coast of Greece by a narrow strait; the neck of land which joined it to the mainland having been cut through by the Corinthians seven centuries before Christ. To this day it remains deeply wooded, and scantily populated, with sparse vineyards and olive groves clinging to the steep sides of the mountains overlooking the blue Ionian sea. The child Lafcadio may haveplayed in his early years among the high-set, halfobliterated ruins of the Temple of Apollo, from whence offenders were cast down with multitudes of birds tied to their limbs, that perchance the beating of a thousand wings might break the violence of the fall, and so rescue them from the last penalty of expiation...
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- Nombre de pages :
- 262
- Langue:
- Anglais
Caractéristiques
- EAN:
- 9781697432671
- Date de parution :
- 04-10-19
- Format:
- Livre broché
- Format numérique:
- Trade paperback (VS)
- Dimensions :
- 216 mm x 279 mm
- Poids :
- 612 g
