Leaves From the Diary of an Impressionist, 1911 PDF Download

Author: Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266855903
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Excerpt from Leaves From the Diary of an Impressionist, 1911: Early Writings After a romantic though somewhat vague Odyssey of misfortune, Hearn fi nally emerges in Cincinnati at the age of twenty as Old semi-colon, ' a proof-reader and budding journalist by profession, a 'flame-hearted' artist in words by aspir ation. His appearance at this time, as a striking bearded portrait shows, was that of a Parisian poet not yet 'arrived'; and that side of his temperament, which later made him style himself, half in irony, half in penitence, 'a vicious, French-hearted scalawag, ' was then, perhaps, most restive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.