Theophile Gautier: 52 books

Classic French story, first published in 1857. According to Wikipedia: "Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (August 30, 1811 October 23, 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic. While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify...

According to Wikipedia: "Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (August 30, 1811 October 23, 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic. While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent...

According to Wikipedia: "Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (August 30, 1811 October 23, 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic. While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent...

According to Wikipedia: "Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (August 30, 1811 October 23, 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic. While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent...

The Mummy's Foot is a gothic tale, published in French as "Le Pied de Momie." It relates the adventures of a man who buys the 3,000 year old foot of Princess Hermonthis in a Parisian curio shop. Gautier has a fascination with Ancient Egypt as well as an obsession with mortality, decay, and...

Spirite is one of Gautier's major prose works, yet one of his most neglected. It is the tale of a woman who dies before the man she loves even notices she exists. There follows a sometimes thrilling, sometimes touching story of interaction between the spirit world and reality. It is a mystical masterpiece....

Pierre Jules Théophile 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 Doyenné district of Paris, living a rather pleasant bohemian life. He began writing poetry as early as 1826 but the majority...

Containing fantasy, horror, and vampire fiction, One of Cleopatra’s Nights is a collection of passionate stories by Théophile Gautier, the master of the spectral. The title story captures the eternal horror of Egypt’s netherworld of catacombs; and the romantic vampire tale, “Clarimonde,” is included here along with other tales of sinister creatures and femme fatales.

Well-known French writer Théophile Gautier and Bernard Lopez combine their talents in this send-up of the cloak-and-sword dramas so popular with the Romantics. When the Spanish Queen's horse runs away with her, two unknown caballeros rescue Elizabeth from certain death--despite the fact that Spanish...

Extrait : Cléopâtre n’était pas très belle. Elle ne l’emportait ni en beauté ni en jeunesse sur cette chaste Octavie à qui elle prit Antoine pour la vie et la mort. « Sa beauté, dit Amyot, qui traduit Plutarque agréablement, sa beauté seule n’étoit point si incomparable qu’il n’y...

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...

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...

Ne trouve pas étrange, homme du monde, artiste, Qui que tu sois, de voir par un portail si triste S’ouvrir fatalement ce volume nouveau. Hélas! tout monument qui dresse au ciel son faîte, Enfonce autant les pieds qu’il élève la tête. Avant de s’élancer tout clocher est caveau, En bas, l’oiseau...

Extrait : L’année dernière, je fus invité, ainsi que deux de mes camarades d’atelier, Arrigo Cohic et Pedrino Borgnioli, à passer quelques jours dans une terre au fond de la Normandie. Le temps, qui, à notre départ, promettait d’être superbe, s’avisa de changer tout à coup, et il tomba...