The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-De-Si?cle France

by Joris-Karl Huysmans, Catulle Mendès, Jean Lorrain, et al.

Book Overview

A collection of stories and novels from fin-de-si cle France that celebrate decline, decay, and deviance.In France at the end of the nineteenth century, progress and material prosperity coincided with... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1890951064
• ISBN13: 9781890951061
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Zone Books
• Length: 1096 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher