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A terrifying tale by Th ophile Gautier written in first person. It narrates the story of a young priest, Romuald, who falls in love with a mysterious woman called Clarimonde, a beautiful woman who turns out to be a vampire. He goes through strange experiences... Read Full Overview

Follow the classic supernatural tale of forbidden love between a devout priest and a beautiful vampiress in The Dead Woman in Love.

At sixty-six years of age, an elderly priest is finally ready to tell the story of his first and only love. Over forty years... Read Full Overview

First published in 1836, Th ophile Gautier's 'The Dead Woman in Love' is a supernatural tale, recounting the life of the priest named Romuald who falls in love with the beautiful and enigmatic Clarimonde, who the reader later learns to be a vampire. At the beginning of the tale,... Read Full Overview

A classic story of a priest named Romuald who falls in love with Clarimonde, a beautiful woman who turns out to be a vampire.

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... Read Full Overview

Le vieux Romuald, 'gé de 66 ans, raconte à un autre ecclésiastique, Sérapion, qu'il nomme « frère » les faits étranges qui ont suivi son ordination.Alors jeune moine d'une cure de campagne, il vit une expérience troublante : le jour il est homme d'église, la nuit il est un jeune... Read Full Overview

La Morte Amoureuse est un roman gothique �����crit par Th�����ophile Gautier. L'histoire suit le pr������tre romain Romuald qui tombe amoureux d'une myst�����rieuse... Read Full Overview

La Morte Amoureuse est un roman gothique �����crit par Th�����ophile Gautier en 1836. L'histoire se d�����roule en France au XVIIIe si�����cle... Read Full Overview

Le vieux Romuald raconte un autre eccl siastique qu'il nomme "fr re" les faits tranges qui ont suivi son ordination. Alors jeune moine d'une cure de campagne, il vit une exp rience troublante: le jour il est homme d' glise, la nuit il est un jeune seigneur de Venise. Cette... Read Full Overview

Brother, you ask me if I have ever loved. Yes. My story is a strange and terrible one; and though I am sixty-six years of age, I scarcely dare even now to disturb the ashes of that memory. To you I can refuse nothing; but I should not relate such a tale to any less experienced... Read Full Overview

"La Morte amoureuse" de Theophile Gautier. Poete, romancier, peintre et critique d'art francais (1811-1872)."

La Morte amoureuse, nouvelle incontournable de Th?ophile Gautier, a ?t? publi?e pour la premi?re fois en France en 1897.

Une histoire vampirique au sein de laquelle les nuits d'un jeune pr tre, Romuald, sont hant es par l'esprit de Clairmonde, une jeune femme dont il est tomb perdument amoureux. Qualifi e de "chef d'oeuvre" par Baudelaire, la Morte Amoureuse est aujourd'hui consid r e comme l'un... Read Full Overview

It is fascinating story about mad, no-right-no-wrong passion between Romuald, a young priest and the story s narrator, and Clarimonde, a supernaturally beautiful courtesan and vampire. Gautier s imagery and writing are gorgeous and never seedy, despite Clarimonde s prostitution... Read Full Overview

"Clarimonde" from Th ophile Gautier. French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic (1811-1872).