Theophile: 53 books

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...

Travel essay, first published in French in "The Orient" in 1869. 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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

La Cafetière J’ai vu sous de sombres voiles Onze étoiles, La lune, aussi le soleil, Me faisant la révérence, En silence, Tout le long de mon sommeil. (La vision de Jacob.)

Dashing adventurers with more than their fair share of derring-do, lovely ladies in peril -- these fast-paced action tales have something for everyone. The title story is a heart-pounding thriller set in Egypt, and the other pieces in the collection are equally enthralling.

I had entered, in an idle mood, the shop of one of those curiosity-venders, who are called marchands de bric-a-brac in that Parisian ar got which is so perfectly unintelligible elsewhere in France. You have doubtless glanced occasionally through the windows of some of these shops, which have...

A tourist unlocks a terrible secret that has cursed a small town for generations. A man desperate to hold on to his love at all costs makes a deal with too high of a price. A quiet vacation in a cabin turns into a nightmare for an elderly couple. An investigative reporter gets the interview of the century...with the Boogeyman. These tales and others await.

Florine My dear lords, I can only repeat to you what I’ve already said. My mistress is not here. Duke That is the utmost falsity. I saw her leaning out of her window

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...

CHAPTER I. FROM PARIS TO BORDEAUX. Departure from Paris—Subterranean Dwellings—Château Regnault—Tours—Châtellerault— Angoulême—The Landes—Cubzac—Bordeaux—The Theatre—The Cathedral— St. Michael's Tower—Mummified Corpses—The Museum CHAPTER II. FROM BORDEAUX TO VERGARA. The...

The “Leopold,” a splendid Tuscan steamer plying between Marseilles and Naples, had just doubled Procida Point. The passengers, cured of their sea-sickness by the sight of land, most efficacious of all remedies, were all out on deck. On the part reserved for the first-class passengers, stood a number...