Ligeia (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- First Published: 1838
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Type of Plot: Gothic
- Time of Work: Early nineteenth century
- Setting: Germany and England
- Principal Characters: The Narrator, Ligeia, Lady Rowena Trevanion
- Genres: Short fiction, Fantasy, Gothic fiction
- Subjects: Wives, Memory, Love or romance, Immortality, Supernatural, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Obsession, Substance abuse, England or English people, Death or dying, Drug addiction or addicts, Remarriage, Bereavement or grief, Germany or German people, Opium, Moths
- Locales: England, Germany
The Story:
He could not remember when he had first met Ligeia, and he knew nothing of her family except that it was old. Ligeia herself, once his wife, he could remember in every detail. She was tall and slender. Ethereal as a shadow, her face was faultless in its beauty, her skin like ivory, her features classic. Crowning the perfect face and body was raven-black, luxuriant hair. Her eyes, above all else, held the key to Ligeia’s mystery. Larger than most, those black eyes held an expression unfathomable even to her husband. It became his all-consuming passion to unravel the...
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