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The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt by Theophile Gautier, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
Contributor(s): Gautier, Theophile (Author)
ISBN: 1463800193     ISBN-13: 9781463800192
Publisher: Aegypan
OUR PRICE:   $18.00  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: June 2011
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- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Fantasy - Dark Fantasy
- Fiction | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 0.45" H x 6" W x 9" (0.65 lbs) 198 pages
 
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While Gautier was an ardent defender of Romanticism, his work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism.

"I have a presentiment that we shall find in the valley of Biban el Mol k a tomb intact," said to a high-bred-looking young Englishman a much more humble personage who was wiping, with a big, blue-checked handkerchief, his bald head, on which stood drops of perspiration, just as if it had been made of porous clay and filled with water like a Theban water-jar.

"May Osiris hear you " replied the English nobleman to the German scholar. "One may be allowed such an invocation in the presence of the ancient Diospolis Magna. But we have been so often deceived hitherto; treasure-seekers have always forestalled us."

Contributor Bio(s): Gautier, Theophile: - "Pierre Jules Theophile Gautier (1811 - 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art 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 literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism. Early in his life, Gautier befriended Gerard de Nerval, who influenced him greatly in his earlier poetry and also through whom he was introduced to Victor Hugo. He shared in Hugo's dissatisfaction with the theatrical outputs of the time and the use of the word "tragedy." Gautier admired Honore de Balzac for his contributions to the development of French literature. Gautier was influenced greatly by his friends as well, paying tribute to them in his writings. In fact, he dedicated his collection of Dernieres Poesies to his many friends, including Herbert, Madame de la Grangerie, Maxime Du Camp and Princess Mathilde Bonaparte."