The mere mention of the word "e;psychology"e; in connection with business was once greeted with a shrug of the shoulders, a raising of the eyebrows and a change of the subject.
Excerpt: "e;Thought-Culture in general will do much for the Imagination, for the very processes employed in the development and cultivation of the various other faculties of the mind will also tend to bring the Imagination into subjection and under control, instead of allowing it to remain the wild, fanciful irresponsible faculty that it is in the majority of cases.
Excerpt: "e;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.
Journalist-by-trade Lafcadio Hearn used his wanderer's eye and guileless, graceful style to provide elegant chronicles for an English-speaking world fascinated by the exotic sensibilities of Japan.
A brief but delightful insight into Japanese culture by an author who (from my experience) has consistently captured the ways of the Japanese people of the time.
Excerpt: "e;Our land is the home of elephants, dromedaries, camels, crocodiles, meta-collinarum, cametennus, tensevetes, wild asses, white and red lions, white bears, white merules, crickets, griffins, tigers, lamias, hyenas, wild horses, wild oxen and wild men, men with horns, one-eyed, men with eyes before and [38] behind, centaurs, fauns, satyrs, pygmies, forty-ell-high giants, Cyclopses, and similar women; it is the home, too, of the ph nix, and of nearly all living animals.
Auszug: "Sie ging langsam, die Schleppe des Kleides schleifte über die breiten Marmorstufen, ein resedafarbener pelzverbrämter Mantel hüllte ihre hohe, schlanke Gestalt ein, die hellen Haare fielen in einzelnen, wirren Strähnen unter einem großen schwarzen Hut hervor .
Robert Louis Stevenson has an important place in the history of the short story in the British Isles: the form had been elaborated and developed in America, France and Russia from the mid-19th century, but it was Stevenson who initiated the British tradition.
In "e;The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow and Two More Stories"e; by Washington Irving, readers are invited into a world where folklore and history intertwine with captivating narratives.