Author: Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Year: 1883
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Short Stories, Fiction, Horror, Classic
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9780192816962
0192816969 |
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Villiers was much admired by contemporaries such as Yeats and Verlaine. Some of these tales are exotic and mythical while others convey a picture of glittering Paris life.
CONTENTS:
* The Bienfilâtre sisters
* Vera
* Vox populi
* Two augurs
* Celestial publicity
* Antonie
* The glory machine
* The Duke of Portland
* Virginia and Paul
* The eleventh-hour guest
* The very image
* The impatient mob
* The secret of the old music
* Sentimentality
* The finest dinner in the world
* The desire to be a man
* Flowers of darkness
* The apparatus for the chemical analysis of the last breath
* The brigands
* Queen Ysabeau
* Sombre tale, sombre teller
* The sign
* The unknown woman
* Maryelle
* Doctor Tristan's treatment
* Occult memories
* The messenger
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