Project Gutenberg 2007-09-18 Public domain in the USA. 312 Gautier, Théophile 1811 1872 Gaultier, Theophile Gautier, Theophile Gautier, Pierre-Jules-Théophile Hearn, Lafcadio 1850 1904 Koizumi, Yakumo Hearn, Patrick Lafcadio Xiaoquan, Bayun The Mummy's Foot Produced by David Widger "The Mummy's Foot" by Théophile Gautier is a short story written in the early 19th century during the Romantic period. This fantastical tale explores themes of antiquity, love, and the blurring of the lines between the living and the dead, centering around a curious encounter with a mummified foot that once belonged to a royal Egyptian princess. The story satirizes the fascination with antiquities and delves into the surreal through the protagonist's dreamlike experiences involving the foot. The narrative begins with a narrator who purchases a mummified foot from an eccentric bric-à-brac dealer in Paris, believing it to be a unique paperweight. Upon returning home, the foot inexplicably comes to life, leading to the appearance of the beautiful Princess Hermonthis, who laments her condition of having lost her foot. As they converse in ancient Coptic, the narrator learns of her plight and gallantly offers to return the foot to her. The two embark on a fantastical journey through a mystical landscape to meet her father, Pharaoh, where the narrator humorously proposes marriage to the princess. However, the ancient Pharaoh ultimately refuses due to their age difference, concluding the whimsical story as the narrator awakens, only to find that the mummy's foot has vanished, leaving behind a token from the princess. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Short stories Horror tales PQ Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 55821 55830 2024-09-10T04:38:21.731892 2023-09-10T08:11:59.672817 text/html text/html 51076 2012-12-29T16:36:56 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 19517 2013-02-12T13:41:48 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 67302 2024-09-10T04:38:24.798882 application/epub+zip 66286 2024-09-10T04:38:22.906882 application/epub+zip 66286 2024-09-10T04:38:22.168894 application/epub+zip 158840 2024-09-10T04:38:26.278864 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 152140 2024-09-10T04:38:24.314889 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 152322 2022-09-10T14:34:04.784981 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 45825 45818 2024-09-10T04:38:21.529915 2023-09-10T08:11:59.483746 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 45748 2007-09-18T13:13:46 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 18455 2007-09-18T13:13:46 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 45739 2007-09-18T13:13:46 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18430 2007-09-18T13:13:46 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21282 2024-09-10T04:38:26.478860 application/rdf+xml 13464 2024-09-10T04:38:22.499883 image/jpeg 3529 2024-09-10T04:38:22.333889 image/jpeg 67871 2024-09-10T04:38:21.737907 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia en.wikipedia