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Against the Grain
Joris-karl Huysmans
Against the Grain
Joris-karl Huysmans
"There was only one living scion of this family which had once been so numerous that it had occupied all the territories of the Ile-de-France and La Brie. The Duc Jean was a slender, nervous young man of thirty, with hollow cheeks, cold, steel-blue eyes, a straight, thin nose and delicate hands." Thus we are introduced to the character of Des Esseintes in a novel that has been banned and censored for years, but still lives on as being one of the finest examples of the "decadent" literature written by fin-de-siecle (late nineteenth century) writers. Oscar Wilde, himself, called the novel "the Breviary of Decadence."
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | July 1, 2006 |
ISBN13 | 9781598181333 |
Publishers | Aegypan |
Pages | 232 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 18 mm · 480 g |
Language | English |
Contributor | John Howard |
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