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Oshidori

Lafcadio Hearn

First published 1904
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Although it is considered "not good" to do so, a hungry man kills a mandarin duck.

First published in Kwaidan (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, April 1904).

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1904 Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things Houghton Mifflin Collection 21
April 1904 Cover Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things Houghton Mifflin Collection 21
1949 Cover The Selected Writings of Lafcadio Hearn Citadel Press Omnibus 32
March 1965 50 Great Oriental Stories Bantam Books Anthology 159
1971 Cover The Selected Writings of Lafcadio Hearn Citadel Press Omnibus 32
1980 Cover Fantômes du Japon Union générale d'éditions Collection 207
May 1985 Cover Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural Doubleday / SFBC Anthology 149
June 1985 Cover Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural Doubleday Anthology 149
October 1990 Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural Dorset Press Anthology
November 1991 Cover The Selected Writings of Lafcadio Hearn Citadel Press Omnibus 32
December 1991 Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural Macdonald Anthology
October 1992 Cover Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural Warner Books UK Anthology
October 1993 Cover Le mangeur de rêves 10/18 Collection 299
June 2004 Cover Kwaidan Cosimo Classics Collection 21
June 2007 Cover Oriental Ghost Stories Wordsworth Editions Collection 27
January 2010 Cover Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things SMK Books Collection 15
February 2010 Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things Project Gutenberg Collection |21
May 2013 Cover Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things CreateSpace Collection 8
May 2014 Cover Principesse e Mononoke: Storie di fantasmi giapponesi Kappalab Collection |2
September 2015 Cover Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things Evertype Collection 8
February 2018 Cover Principesse e Mononoke: Storie di fantasmi giapponesi Kappalab Collection |2
March 2019 Cover Short Stories Sirius / Arcturus Publishing Collection 275
May 2019 Cover Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things Unicorn Publishing Group Collection
July 2019 Cover Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn Princeton University Press Collection 117
July 2019 Cover Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn Princeton University Press Collection |117
December 2022 Cover Storie di fantasmi giapponesi Kappalab Collection |2
February 2023 Cover Mononoké, histoires de fantômes japonais Ynnis Éditions Collection 31
February 2023 Cover Mononoké, histoires de fantômes japonais Ynnis Éditions Collection |4