Against Nature - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Joris-Karl Huysmans, Robert Baldick (Translator), Patrick McGuiness (Introduction by)Series:Penguin ClassicsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2004-02-24Pages:242
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780140447637ISBN-10:140447636UPC:9780140447637Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, HistoricalSize:7.70 x 5.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCPD6R2FWH
Against Nature
The infamous inspiration for the novel which slowly corrupts Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray is translated by Robert Baldick with an introduction by Patrick McGuinness in Penguin Classics. A wildly original fin-de-si?cle novel, Against Nature contains only one character. Des Esseintes is a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where her indulges his taste for luxury and excess....
Series: Penguin Classics
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780140447637ISBN-10:140447636UPC:9780140447637Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, HistoricalSize:7.70 x 5.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCPD6R2FWH
Born in Paris in 1848 and acknowledged as a principal architect of the fin-de-si?cle imagination, Joris-Karl Huysmans was a career civil servant who wrote ten novels, most notably A Rebours (1884) and L?-Bas (1891). Huysmans died in 1907. Robert Baldick (d.1972) translated widely from the French and wrote a biography of Huysmans. Patrick McGuinness is a Fellow and Tutor in French at St Anne's...
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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