有谁知道爱伦坡的小说<<Ligeia>>的英文内容简介

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以下内容引自英文维基百科

"Ligeia" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the September 18, 1838 edition of American Museum Magazine, and was edited by two of Poe's friends, Dr. N.C. Brooks and Dr. J. E. Snodgrass. The magazine paid Poe $10 for "Ligeia" and another of his stories, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym."

Ligeia was extensively verbally revised throughout its publication history. It was reprinted in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840), the one volume of Phantasy Pieces (1842), and Tales by Edgar Allan Poe (1845), and it appeare alongside the poem "The Conqueror Worm" in the New York New World (February 15, 1845), and the Broadway Journal (after July, 1845)

Summary
The unnamed narrator describes the qualities of Ligeia, a beautiful, passionate and intellectual woman, raven-haired and dark-eyed, that he met "in a decaying city near the Rhine". They marry,