Chita: A Memory of Last Island
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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The tidal wave of 1856 takes a Louisiana island resort in one night, and a Spanish fisherman's family finds a child alive in the wreckage — whose own father is still alive, and looking. Hearn was born on a Greek island to an Irish surgeon, abandoned by both parents, blinded in one eye, and worked as a Cincinnati crime reporter before New Orleans and then Japan; the hurricane in this 1889 novella is the best prose he wrote in English. Fifty-nine plates, from Homer and Turner to Fitz Henry Lane, trace the sea and shore that give this story of loss and rescue its weather.
The tidal wave of 1856 takes a Louisiana island resort in one night, and a Spanish fisherman's family finds a child alive in the wreckage — whose own father is still alive, and looking. Hearn was born on a Greek island to an Irish surgeon, abandoned by both parents, blinded in one eye, and worked...
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Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904) was a writer and journalist born in Greece who worked in the United States and Japan. He lived in New Orleans and later taught in Tokyo, producing fiction and essays drawn from his experiences. His works include Chita: A Memory of Last Island (1889), a novella set on a Louisiana Gulf Coast island.
Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904) was a writer and journalist born in Greece who worked in the United States and Japan. He lived in New Orleans and later taught in Tokyo, producing fiction and essays drawn from his experiences. His works include Chita: A Memory of Last Island (1889), a novella set on a ...
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