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The book (translated by the 19th-century fantasist Lafcadio Hearn) opens with "One of Cleopatra's Nights," in which a common hunter recklessly declares his love for the queen; instead of having him executed, she proposes to take him for her lover, if he will agree to one horrific condition. The second of the six tales is Gautier's most famous, "Clarimonde" (which also appears, in a different translation, in Italo Calvino's anthology of 19th-century fantasy classics, Fantastic Tales, under the title "The Beautiful Vampire"). If "Clarimonde" did not invent the romantic vampire, it established the formula, with its gorgeous, irresistible woman whose love will not surrender even to death, and who must imbibe her mortal lover's blood to remain at his side. In "Arria Marcella," a tourist's ardent fascination with a woman who perished in the eruption of Vesuvius brings the woman, and Pompeii, back to life--but not life as we know it. In the witty, slyly self-parodying story "The Mummy's Foot," a writer purchases the embalmed extremity to serve as a paperweight, only to find its original owner, a Pharaonic princess, has returned to reclaim her foot and lead him to the Egyptian afterlife. "

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Author

Gautier, Théophile

Publisher

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

Published

1882

Language

EN

ISBN

9781169835818

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction