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    The Mummy's Foot
    The Mummy's Foot
    The Mummy's Foot
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    The Mummy's Foot

    By Lafcadio Hearn and Théophile Gautier

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 1966
    The Mummy's Foot
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    Lafcadio Hearn

    Lafcadio Hearn, also called Koizumi Yakumo, was best known for his books about Japan. He wrote several collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, including Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things.

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    • 4/5
      Silly little novel about some treasure hunters who find an ancient mummy, and learn of her dramatic life story via a scroll. Lots of lush, over-the-top descriptions of the exotic setting. A funny piece of fluff.

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    The Mummy's Foot - Lafcadio Hearn

    The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mummy's Foot, by Théophile Gautier

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    Title: The Mummy's Foot

    Author: Théophile Gautier

    Translator: Lafcadio Hearn

    Release Date: September 18, 2007 [EBook #22662]

    Last Updated: December 17, 2012

    Language: English

    *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MUMMY'S FOOT ***

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    THE MUMMY'S FOOT

    By Théophile Gautier

    Translated By Lafcadio Hearn

    1908

    I had entered, in an idle mood, the shop of one of those curiosity venders who are called marchands de bric-à-brac in that Parisian argot which is so perfectly unintelligible elsewhere in France.

    You have doubtless glanced occasionally through the windows of some of these shops, which have become so numerous now that it is fashionable to buy antiquated furniture, and that every petty stockbroker thinks he must have his chambre au moyen âge.

    There is one thing there which clings alike to the shop of the dealer in old iron, the ware-room of the tapestry maker, the laboratory of the chemist, and the studio of the painter: in all those gloomy dens where a furtive daylight filters in through the window-shutters the most manifestly ancient thing is dust. The cobwebs are more authentic than the gimp laces, and the old pear-tree furniture on exhibition is actually younger than the mahogany which arrived but yesterday from America.

    The warehouse of my bric-à-brac dealer was a veritable Capharnaum. All ages and all nations seemed to have made their rendezvous there. An Etruscan lamp of red clay stood upon a Boule cabinet, with ebony panels, brightly striped by lines of inlaid brass; a duchess of the court of Louis xv. nonchalantly extended her fawn-like feet under a massive table of the time of Louis xiii., with heavy spiral supports of oak, and carven designs of chimeras and foliage intermingled.

    Upon the denticulated shelves of several sideboards glittered immense Japanese dishes with red and blue designs relieved by gilded hatching, side by side with enamelled works

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