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Availability:In StockContributor:Auguste Villiers De L'Isle Adam, Brian StablefordPublish date:2019-08-12Pages:184
Language:EnglishPublisher:Snuggly BooksISBN-13:9781645250043ISBN-10:1645250040UPC:9781645250043Book Category:Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:FrenchSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.42 inchesWeight:0.5313Product ID:SC7EE9XC3B

Here, presented in English in a long-belated translation by Brian Stableford, is Isis, the first novel of the acclaimed author of Contes cruels, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. Deserving to be reckoned as one of the foundation-stones of Decadent prose fiction, redolent with echoes of Byron and Poe, reconfigured in the Baudelairean manner, and flamboyant with Gautieresque elements, this book is a tour de force of extravagant implication and esthetic dexterity: a work of peculiar genius.

In its vaulting ambitions, its quirky mannerisms, its philosophical posturing and its lush descriptions, Isis is certainly a tale given to excess, but that excess is the essence of the endeavor, the wand of its enchantment.


Language:EnglishPublisher:Snuggly BooksISBN-13:9781645250043ISBN-10:1645250040UPC:9781645250043Book Category:Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:FrenchSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.42 inchesWeight:0.5313Product ID:SC7EE9XC3B
Publisher: Snuggly Books

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