Helen Constantine

Theophile Gautier

Chevalier d'Albert fantasizes about his ideal lover, yet every woman he meets falls short of his exacting standards of female perfection. Embarking on an affair with the lovely Rosette to ease his boredom, he is thrown into tumultuous confusion when she receives a dashing young visitor. Exquisitely handsome, Théodore inspires passions d'Albert never believed he could feel for a man - and Rosette also seems to be in thrall to the charms of her guest. Does this bafflingly alluring person have a secret to hide? Subversive and seductive, Mademoiselle de Maupin (1835) draws readers into the bedrooms and boudoirs of a French château in a compelling exploration of desire and sexual intrigue.

Mademoiselle de Maupin

La Morte Amoureuse

Pierre Jules Theophile Gautier (1811-1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic. In the 1830 Revolution, he chose to stay with friends in the Doyenne district of Paris, living a rather pleasant bohemian life. He began writing poetry as early as 1826 but the majority of his life was spent as a contributor to various journals, mainly for La Presse, which also gave him the opportunity for foreign travel and meeting many influential contacts in high society and in the world of the arts, which inspired many of his writings including Voyage en Espagne (1843), Tresors d'Art de la Russie (1858), and Voyage en Russie (1867). He was a celebrated abandonnee of the Romantic Ballet, writing several scenarios, the most famous of which is Giselle. His prestige was confirmed by his role as director of Revue de Paris from 1851-1856. During this time, he became a journalist for Le Moniteur universel, then the editorship of influential review L'Artiste in 1856. His works include: Albertus (1830), La Comedie de la Mort (1838), Une Larme du Diable (1839), Constantinople (1853) and L'Art Moderne (1856).

Clarimonde

Ölü Sevgili

A creative innovator who boldly traversed traditional boundaries separating different genres and schools, French poet Theophile Gautier was extremely influential, playing a role in shaping the styles of poets from T. S. Elliot to Ezra Pound. In this, his most acclaimed collection of verse, Gautier offers his philosophical ponderings and lyrical musings.

Enamels and Cameos and Other Poems

Le Roman de la Momie

Charles Baudelaire

Maurice Stang

Among the earliest artistic accounts of the hallucinogenic experience in European literature, the four pieces in this volume document Gautier and Baudelaire's own involvement in the Club of Assassins, who met under the auspices of Dr Moreau to investigate the psychological and mind-enhancing effects of hashish, wine and opium.

Hashish, Wine, Opium

Lafcadio Hearn

"From that night my nature seemed to have become halved -- and there were two men within me, neither of whom knew the other. At one moment I believed myself a priest who dreamed nightly that he was a gentleman -- at another, that I was a gentleman who dreamed he was a priest. I could no longer distinguish the dream from the reality, nor could I discover where the reality began or where ended the dream " By day he was a priest of the Lord, occupied with prayer and sacred things . . . by night, a young nobleman, a fine connoisseur of women, dogs, and horses -- gambling, drinking, and blaspheming Theophile Gautier (1811-1872), one of the French masters of the Romantic novel, wrote one of the early masterpieces of vampire fiction, in the sensuous "Clarimonde, " or "La Morte Amoureuse." ""Never gaze upon a woman Walk abroad with eyes ever fixed upon the ground," says the priest, "for however chaste and watchful one may be, the error of a single moment is enough to make one lose eternity ""

Alexander Dumas

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

John Polidori

Arthur Young

Robert Sands

Ernst Raupach

In this International Book Awards anthology finalist, the best vampire short stories from the first half of the 19th century are unearthed from long forgotten journals and magazines. They are collected for the first time in this groundbreaking book on the origins of vampire lore. Watch the book trailer: www.AndrewBarger.com/bestvampirestories1800.html The cradle of all vampire short stories in the English language is the first half of the 19th century. Andrew Barger combed forgotten journals and mysterious texts to collect the very best vintage vampire stories from this crucial period in vampire literature. In doing so, Andrew found the second and third vampire stories originally published in the English language, neither printed since their first publication nearly 200 years ago. Also included is the first vampire story originally written in English by John Polidori after a dare with Lord Byron and Mary Shelley. The book contains the first vampire story by an American who was a graduate of Columbia Law School. The book further includes the first vampire stories by an Englishman and German, including the only vampire stories by such renowned authors as Alexander Dumas, Théophile Gautier and Joseph le Fanu. As readers have come to expect from Andrew, he has added his scholarly touch to this collection by including story backgrounds, author photos and a foreword titled "With Teeth." The ground-breaking stories are: 1819 The Vampyre - John Polidori (1795-1821) 1823 Wake Not the Dead - Ernst Raupach 1848 The Vampire of the Carpathian Mountains - Alexander Dumas (1802-1870) 1839 Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter - Joseph Sheridan le Fanu (1814-1873) 1826 Pepopukin in Corsica - Arthur Young (1741-1820) 1819 The Black Vampyre: A Legend of Saint Domingo - Robert Sands (1799-1832) 1836 Clarimonde - Théophile Gautier (1811-1872)

A Classic Vampire Anthology

The Best Vampire Stories 1800-1849

Gautier takes us into the fascinating world of 19th-century Naples where, amidst folklore, beliefs, challenges and passions, the difficult love story of an English couple, often disturbed by intrusions, unfolds. "Jettatura" is an interesting novel that, through fictitious characters, analyses 19th-century Neapolitan society, including its uses, customs and beliefs.

Jettatura

Upon the southern slope of one of those barren hills that rise abruptly here and there in the desolate expanse of the Landes, in South-western France, stood, in the reign of Louis XIII, a gentleman's residence, such as abound in Gascony, and which the country people dignify by the name of chateau. Two tall towers, with extinguisher tops, mounted guard at the angles of the mansion, and gave it rather a feudal air. The deep grooves upon its facade betrayed the former existence of a draw-bridge, rendered unnecessary now by the filling up of the moat, while the towers were draped for more than half their height with a most luxuriant growth of ivy, whose deep, rich green contrasted happily with the ancient gray walls. A traveller, seeing from afar the steep pointed roof and lofty towers standing out against the sky, above the furze and heather that crowned the hill-top, would have pronounced it a rather imposing chateau-the residence probably of some provincial magnate; but as he drew near would have quickly found reason to change his opinion. The road which led to it from the highway was entirely overgrown with moss and weeds, save a narrow pathway in the centre, though two deep ruts, full of water, and inhabited by a numerous family of frogs, bore mute witness to the fact that carriages had once passed that way.

Captain Fracasse

Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1874 edition. Extrait: ...moral anguish, and who already looks at life from the other side. Everybody knows how little aid is given to the expression of tragic feeling by the powder and the curled hair and the styles of dress of 1789; and yet Zichy has been able to make of Werther, in spite of the vignettes of the time, and even the famous blue coat, an ideal creation, poetic and full of character. It has a vigor worthy of Rembrandt; the light, coming from beneath, strikes unexpectedly upon all objects, bringing them out in a strange, weird fashion; and behind Charlotte's lover rises to the very ceiling a shadow, magnified into a phantom. The spectre seems to stand ready to take the place of the man, who is about to disappear. It is not easy to imagine the strength of color obtained in this drawing in India ink, which is usually so cold. As 1 have said, this artist has a multiform nature; you believe you understand him, you assign to him a rank, a manner and style characteristic, as you suppose; suddenly he places before you a new work which quite disconcerts you, and renders your former estimate incomplete. Who would have expected after tin's Wertherto see three large water-colors of still life, representing the very same fox, wolf, and lynx whose skins hang in his drawing-room, and which he killed with his own hand? Neither Jadin, nor Barye, nor Delacroix could have done better. This talent alone would be enough to make its possessor famous in Paris, and this is but one of the least with which Zichy is endowed; there is a truthfulness of tone, a skill in the anatomical drawing, a free touch, a fortunate rendering, a comprehension of each animal's nature, of which one can have no idea. Each beast keeps his own...

A Winter in Russia

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The Works Of Théophile Gautier: Fortunio. One Of Cleopatra's Nights. King Candaules

La letteratura francese abbonda di scrittori che agli animali hanno riservato uno spazio speciale nella loro intimità e produzione artistica. Tra questi, un posto d’onore va riservato a Théophile Gautier, “poeta impeccabile, perfetto mago delle lettere francesi”, come lo definì Baudelaire che con queste parole gli dedicò i Fiori del male. Gautier era convinto che gli animali avessero un’intelligenza e dei sentimenti, e se ne circondò fin dall’infanzia. A essi dedicò questa brillante serie di articoli, pubblicati nel 1869 su «La Vogue parisienne» e poi riuniti in volume. In Zoo familiare – qui presentato in una nuova traduzione e introdotto dal saggista Antonio Castronuovo – incontriamo per primi gli amici felini, seguiti da cani, camaleonti, lucertole, gazze e cavalli, tutti descritti con amore e curiosità come membri di una vera e propria famiglia allargata.

Zoo familiare

Les Roués Innocents

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Histoire de L'art Dramatique en France Depuis Vingt-cinq Ans (1re Serie)

Excerpt from Mademoiselle De Maupin, Vol. 1 It was in 1845 when four of Theophile Gautier's volumes appeared in the Charpentier catalogue; they were Poesies Completes, Nouvelles, Voyage en Espagne, and Mademoiselle de Maupin. For this reprint, the first since the original edition,2 the author modified, but very slightly, some phrases of his work, the text of which, from that time, has never been changed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Mademoiselle De Maupin, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

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Theophile Gautier's masterpiece Mademoiselle de Maupin might be better known for its lengthy preface than the actual novel itself. It is there in which the author discusses art for art's sake, arguing that everything useful is ugly. The novel itself is a historical romance based on the life of French opera star Julie d'Aubigny, better known as Mademoiselle Maupin. The subject of gossip and many colorful stories during her time, Mademoiselle Maupin was known as a first-rate swordswoman who often disguised herself as a man. In Mademoiselle de Maupin we find a love triangle between Chevalier d'Albert, a young French Gentleman who struggles with finding a woman that meets his idealistic expectations, Rosette whom he engages in an affair with to ease his boredom, and the dashing young Theodore, who is actually Maupin disguised as a man. Mademoiselle de Maupin is an excellent example of the French historical romance which in its time was considered somewhat controversial for its sexually orientated themes; by today's standards however it would be considered quite tame.

An influential novelist's shocking tale of sexual deception draws readers into the bedrooms and boudoirs of a French château in a compelling exploration of desire and sexual intrigue.

Theophile Gautier

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