Ligeia - Edgar Allan Poe

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[Ligeia Ebook Reader]Ligeia is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in English in September 1838.
This short story was later translated by Charles Baudelaire and published in 1856 in the collection Extraordinary StoriesSummaryOn the banks of the Rhine, the narrator meets and marries Ligeia, a young noblewoman of great beauty and immense knowledge.
Tall and thin, with long wavy black hair and slit black eyes, she emanates a mysterious strangeness.
Ligeia falls ill and dies, leaving the narrator in despair.He takes refuge in an old English convent, and meets another noble young girl, Lady Rowena of Trevanion, blonde with blue eyes, also beautiful but very different from his first wife.
He marries her without being able to forget Ligeia for a moment.
Their wedding room looks like a tomb.
Lady Rowena is quickly assailed by strange, supernatural events reminiscent of a haunted house.
Exhausted by her anguish, little supported by an opium-addicted husband who does not love her, she falls ill and dies.In the mortuary chamber, the narrator finds himself alone watching over his deceased wife.
In the middle of the night, many signs show that the corpse comes back to life and then death takes it back.
Terrified, he witnesses these successive resurrections until, in the early morning, the corpse rises from the mortuary bed surrounded by its shroud.
Pulling aside the sheet, he realizes that he has before his eyes a tall young woman, with eyes and long black hair, Ligeia.
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