Language English Publication date 1882 Pages ix, 321 pp Translator Lafcadio Hearn | Publisher Richard Worthington Media type Print (Hardcover) Originally published 1882 Genre Speculative fiction Country United States of America | |
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One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances is a collection of fantasy short stories by Théophile Gautier, selected from his Nouvelles and Romans et Contes and translated from the French by Lafcadio Hearn. The translation was Hearn's first book, and is considered one of the best English translations of Gautier. It was first published in hardcover by Richard Worthington in 1882, and reprinted in 1886, 1888, 1890 and 1891; later reprint editions were issued by H. W. Hagemann (1894) and Brentano's in 1899, 1900, 1906, 1910, 1915, and 1927. The first British edition was published by MacLaren and Co. in 1907. The book was reprinted as a trade paperback by Wildside Press in 1999.
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Lin Carter intended to reissue the collection as a volume in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series, though this hope was not realized.
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Reception
Edward Bleiler praised the collection for possessing "[t]he glamour and fascination of the past, told with a fine mixture of sentimentality and horror."
Copyright
The copyright for this story has expired in the United States, and thus now resides in the public domain. The text is available via Project Gutenberg.