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Ligeia (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)

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Bridal chamber. Room in an isolated abbey in the wild English countryside. Following the death of his beloved first wife Ligeia, the narrator restores an ancient English abbey whose gloomy grandeur and remote setting match his own mental and spiritual desolation. Inspired by his opium addiction, he furnishes the abbey in a fantastic style of elaborate furniture, tapestries, wall hangings, and decorations in an attempt to overcome his sorrow. This mixture reaches its zenith in the narrator’s bedroom, high in a turret, where the huge bed has a canopy, and there...

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