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
36THE NIGHT OF ALL SAINTS[3]
2THE BOOK OF THOTH
37THE DEVIL'S CARBUNCLE[4]
3THE FOUNTAIN MAIDEN
38LES COULISSES[5]
4THE BIRD WIFE
39THE STRANGER[6]
5TALES FROM INDIAN AND BUDDHIST BUDDHIST LITERATURE
40Y PORQUE[7]?
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6THE MAKING OF TILOTTAMA
41A DREAM OF KITES[8]
7THE BRAHMAN AND HIS BRAHMANI
42HEREDITARY MEMORIES[9]
8BAKAWALI
43THE GHOSTLY KISS[10]
9NATALIKA
44THE BLACK CUPID[11]
10THE CORPSE-DEMON
45WHEN I WAS A FLOWER[12]
11THE LION
46METEMPSYCHOSIS[13]
12THE LEGEND OF THE MONSTER MISFORTUNE
47THE UNDYING ONE[14]
13A PARABLE BUDDHISTIC
48THE VISION OF THE DEAD CREOLE[15]
14PUNDARI
49THE NAME ON THE STONE[16]
15YAMARAJA
50APHRODITE AND THE KING'S PRISONER[17]
16THE LOTUS OF FAITH; OR, THE FURNACE OF FIRE
51THE FOUNTAIN OF GOLD[18]
17RUNES FROM THE KALEWALA
52A DEAD LOVE[19]
18THE MAGICAL WORDS
53AT THE CEMETERY[20]
19THE FIRST MUSICIAN
54"AÏDA"[21]
20THE HEALING OF WAINAMOINEN
55EL VÓMITO[22]
21STORIES OF MOSLEM LANDS
56THE IDYL OF A FRENCH SNUFF-BOX[23]
22BOUTIMAR, THE DOVE
57SPRING PHANTOMS[24]
23THE SON OF A ROBBER
58A KISS FANTASTICAL[25]
24A LEGEND OF LOVE
59THE BIRD AND THE GIRL[26]
25THE KING'S JUSTICE
60THE TALE OF A FAN[27]
26TRADITIONS RETOLD FROM THE TALMUD
61A LEGEND[28]
27A LEGEND OF RABBA
62THE GYPSY'S STORY[29]
28THE MOCKERS
63THE ONE PILL-BOX[30]
29ESTHER'S CHOICE
64A RIVER REVERIE[31]
30THE DISPUTE IN THE HALACHA
65"HIS HEART IS OLD"[32]
31RABBI YOCHANAN BEN ZACHAI
66MDCCCLIII[33]
32A TRADITION OF TITUS
67HIOUEN-THSANG[34]
33FANTASTICS AND OTHER FANCIES: INTRODUCTION
68L'AMOUR APRÈS LA MORT[36]
34ALL IN WHITE[1]
69THE POST-OFFICE[37]
35THE LITTLE RED KITTEN[2]
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