Unknown author 3 hr 32 min read

A 'Chinese novel' of two fairy serpents, White and Blue, rendered into French Romantic fantasy.

This 1834 French work retells a classic Chinese legend of two enchanted snake-women in the ornate, exoticizing manner of the Romantic era's fascination with the Orient. A curious period artifact of nineteenth-century fantasy and cross-cultural adaptation. Read it for an early French excursion into Chinese myth, dressed in the fairy-tale finery of its day.

In its time

Published in 1834, during the 1830s, poe and the german romantics.

Reading it

3 hr 32 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).