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7 de abr. de 2012 · One of Cleopatra's nights -- Clarimonde -- Arria Marcella -- The mummy's foot -- Omphale: a rococo story -- King Candaules. Public domain in the USA. 278 downloads in the last 30 days. Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free! Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
- Théophile Gautier
- 1882
19 de ene. de 2024 · One of Cleopatra's nights, and other fantastic romances. by. ThGeophile Gautier. Publication date. 1900-01-01. Publisher. Brentano's. Collection. internetarchivebooks.
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- Chapter III
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V
- Chapter Vi
Nineteen hundred years ago from the date of this writing, amagnificently gilded and painted cangia was descending the Nile asrapidly as fifty long, flat oars, which seemed to crawl over thefurrowed water like the legs of a gigantic scarabæus, could impel it. This cangia was narrow, long, elevated at both ends in the form of a newmoon, elegantly pro...
Charmion, at once anticipating a confidence, assumed a look of painedsympathy, and drew nearer to her mistress. "I am horribly weary!" continued Cleopatra, letting her arms fall likeone utterly discouraged. "This Egypt crushes, annihilates me; this skywith its implacable azure is sadder than the deep night of Erebus; nevera cloud, never a shadow, a...
Who is this young man, balancing himself upon a fragment of bark, whodares follow the royal cangia, and is able to contend in a race of speedagainst fifty strong rowers from the land of Kush, all naked to to thewaist, and anointed with palm-oil? What secret motive urges him to thisswift pursuit? That, indeed, is one of the many things we are oblige...
"I love you," repeated Cleopatra, making the serpent-coiling strip ofpapyrus writhe between her delicate white fingers. "Those, are the wordsI longed for. What intelligent spirit, what invisible genius has thus sofully comprehended my desire?" And thoroughly aroused from her languid torpor, she sprang out of bedwith the agility of a cat which has s...
Cleopatra found no rest until morning, at the hour when wandering dreamsreenter the Ivory Gate. Amid the illusions of sleep she beheld all kindsof lovers swimming rivers and scaling walls in order to come to her,and, through the vague souvenirs of the night before, her dreamsappeared fairly riddled with arrows bearing declarations of love.Starting ...
Our world of to-day is puny indeed beside the antique world. Ourbanquets are mean, niggardly, compared with the appalling sumptuousnessof the Roman patricians and the princes of ancient Asia. Their ordinaryrepasts would in these days be regarded as frenzied orgies, and a wholemodern city could subsist for eight days upon the leavings of one supperg...
One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances is a collection of fantasy short stories by Théophile Gautier, selected from his Nouvelles and Romans et Contes and translated from the French by Lafcadio Hearn. The translation was Hearn's first book, and is considered one of the best English translations of Gautier.
- Théophile Gautier
- United States
- 1882
- Lafcadio Hearn
One of Cleopatra's nights, and other fantastic romances. Stories selected from "Nouvelles," and "Romans et contes." Also available in digital form. LAC tnb 2019-10-31 update (1 card) Contributor: Gautier, Théophile - Hearn, Lafcadio
31 de oct. de 2019 · One of Cleopatra's nights, and other fantastic romances. Names Gautier, Théophile, 1811-1872. Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904, tr. Created / Published New York, R. Worthington, 1882. Contents
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