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The French writer Theophile Gautier (1811-1872) was a leading writer of the Romantic movement and forms a bridge between the supernatural fiction of Goethe and E.T.A. Hoffmann and the pivotal pulp magazine Weird Tales . Gautier was fascinated by antique times and classical cultures; strange and fantastic events; exotic and compelling horrors; and love that transcends class, time, and even death. As the lush, passionate stories and novellas in One of Cleopatra's Nights demonstrate, Gautier originated or crystallized two powerful archetypes that entertain and haunt us still--the romantic vampire and the femme fatale. His collection should be read by fans of fantasy, horror, historical, and Romantic fiction. 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

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Author

Gautier, Theophile; Hearn, Lafcadio

Publisher

Kessinger Publishing

Published

1882

Language

EN

ISBN

9781620128640

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fantasy, Other Fantasy Fiction Categories, Fiction