Author: Villiers de l'Isle-Adam Year: 1883 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories, Fiction, Horror, Classic
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ISBNs: 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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