Stray Leaves from Strange Literature, and, Fantastics and Other Fancies
By Lafcadio Hearn
Length9h 8m
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Excerpt: "While engaged upon this little mosaic work of legend and fable, I felt much like one of those merchants told of in Sindbad's Second Voyage, who were obliged to content themselves with gathering the small jewels adhering to certain meat which eagles brought up from the Valley of Diamonds. I have had to depend altogether upon the labor of translators for my acquisitions; and these seemed too small to deserve separate literary setting. By cutting my little gems according to one pattern, I have doubtless reduced the beauty of some; yet it seemed to me their colors were so weird, their luminosity so elfish, that their intrinsic value could not be wholly destroyed even by so clumsy an artificer as I."
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GenreHorror, Literary Classics
Length9 hrs 8 mins
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Publish dateAug 30, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1EXPLANATORY
26TRADITIONS RETOLD FROM THE TALMUD
2THE BOOK OF THOTH
27A LEGEND OF RABBA
3THE FOUNTAIN MAIDEN
28THE MOCKERS
4THE BIRD WIFE
29ESTHER'S CHOICE
5TALES FROM INDIAN AND BUDDHIST BUDDHIST LITERATURE
30THE DISPUTE IN THE HALACHA
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6THE MAKING OF TILOTTAMA
31RABBI YOCHANAN BEN ZACHAI
7THE BRAHMAN AND HIS BRAHMANI
32A TRADITION OF TITUS
8BAKAWALI
33FANTASTICS AND OTHER FANCIES: INTRODUCTION
9NATALIKA
34ALL IN WHITE[1]
10THE CORPSE-DEMON
35THE LITTLE RED KITTEN[2]
11THE LION
36THE NIGHT OF ALL SAINTS[3]
12THE LEGEND OF THE MONSTER MISFORTUNE
37THE DEVIL'S CARBUNCLE[4]
13A PARABLE BUDDHISTIC
38LES COULISSES[5]
14PUNDARI
39THE STRANGER[6]
15YAMARAJA
40Y PORQUE[7]?
16THE LOTUS OF FAITH; OR, THE FURNACE OF FIRE
41A DREAM OF KITES[8]
17RUNES FROM THE KALEWALA
42HEREDITARY MEMORIES[9]
18THE MAGICAL WORDS
43THE GHOSTLY KISS[10]
19THE FIRST MUSICIAN
44THE BLACK CUPID[11]
20THE HEALING OF WAINAMOINEN
45WHEN I WAS A FLOWER[12]
21STORIES OF MOSLEM LANDS
46METEMPSYCHOSIS[13]
22BOUTIMAR, THE DOVE
47THE UNDYING ONE[14]
23THE SON OF A ROBBER
48THE VISION OF THE DEAD CREOLE[15]
24A LEGEND OF LOVE
49THE NAME ON THE STONE[16]
25THE KING'S JUSTICE
50APHRODITE AND THE KING'S PRISONER[17]
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