A Dilemma, Paperback - Joris Karl Huysmans

Reducere. Originally published in book form in French in 1887, Joris-Karl Huysmans' A Dilemma remains a particularly nasty little tale, a mordantly satiric a...

The lowly, downtrodden Paris civil servant Jean Folantin seeks respite from the boredom and isolation of his life in the small joys of food and the...

Joris-Karl Huysmans' shocking novel of an innocent's descent into a world of depraved, blasphemous ritualsDurtal, a shy, censorious man, is writing...

Reducere. Resisting the traditional model of nineteenth-century fiction, Joris-Karl Huysman produced in 1884 a novel unlike any other of his time. Against Na...

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DescriptionDuc Jean des Esseintes, the wealthy last survivor of a once-powerful family, has retreated from his bourgeois life in Paris. Overwhelmed...

Reducere. "The days of anything static--form, content, state--are over, " declares poet and translator Pierre Joris in A Nomad Poetics, his first collection ...

In 1999, when most people think that the world is about to end with the Y2K crash on the eve of the new Millennium, Jet is just trying to get throu...

Reducere. Cici dreams of being a novelist. Her favorite subject: people, especially adults. She's been watching them and taking notes. Everybody has one spec...

Robert Kelly is one of the major and most prolific American poets of our time. Between 1961 when his first collection, Armed Descent, was published...

Reducere. In a small city in the heart of the Midwest, there's a serial killer on the loose targeting convicted child molesters. He's known to the public as ...

Robert Baldick's Life of J.-K. Huysmans has become not just a standard reference work, to be consulted as regularly as the writing of the author wh...

Reducere. The Crowds of Lourdes, first published in 1906, was J.-K. Huysmans last book, and certainly his greatest work of non-fiction. Written in a style th...

Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Chantelle ShawNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 170 x 107 x 26Cover type: Paperba...

Publisher: Dedalus LtdAuthor(s): J. K. HuysmansTranslator: Brendan KingNumber of pages: 190Publication date: 2007Dimensions: 197 x 136 x 12Cover ty...

Knowing the truth will destroy her. Keeping it secret will destroy him. 'A powerful, beautifully crafted story that ratchets up the tension with ev...

Reducere. A woman's birthday party takes a dark turn in a poignant, heart-stopping new novel from the reigning queen of suspense, New York Times and USA Toda...

Reducere. A woman's birthday party takes a dark turn in a poignant, heart-stopping new novel from the reigning queen of suspense, NYT and USA Today bestselli...

Reducere. Flight nurse Kate Lawrence has learned the hard way that laughter is the best medicine and no one needs a dose of fun more than the newest member o...

Contributor(s): Author: J. -K HuysmansTranslator: Brendan KingDes Esseintes is a neurasthenic aristocrat who has turned his back on the vulgarity o...

A wildly original fin-de-siècle novel, Against Nature follows its sole character, Des Esseintes, a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an i...

Publisher: Dedalus LtdAuthor(s): J. K. HuysmansIllustration(s): 20 b&w photos of Chartres cathedral taken by Brendan KingTranslator: Brendan KingNu...

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Reducere. Author Karla R. Jensen tells the story of Del Schultz, a Marine who served in World War II. Schultz, who grew up in Wisconsin, learned the mindset ...

The changing relationships between science and industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, illustrated by the career of the "fat...

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The first English translation of Huysmans' seminal art book, analysing work by a range of key figures including Paul Gauguin, Mary Cassatt and Edou...

Reducere. Originally written in 1877 and then reworked for inclusion in the 1880 Naturalist anthology Les Soir es de M dan, this novella tells the story of t...

Reducere. Lupta mea , autobiografia literara monumentala, intima si spectaculoasa care a declansat o adevarata frenezie mediatica dupa publicarea sa in Norve...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Eugeena and Amos are married, but the happy couple may see their new life fall apart when Amos' daughter moves in next door. Briana Jones is cookin...

Reducere. In cartea a treia a romanului sau autobiografic, Karl Ove Knausgard descrie cu o onestitate dureroasa intensitatea si noutatea experientei copilari...

Procedee de reabilitare a cladirilor afectate de igrasie. Stabilirea cauzelor si alegerea celor mai eficiente metode de stopare, de la caz la caz. ...

Provides dilemma-based teaching cases that teachers and early childhood leaders can analyse and discuss to build problem-solving and decision-makin...

For more than a century, oil has been the engine of growth for a society that delivers an unprecedented standard of living to many. We now take for...

Reducere. AND is a resource for people who want to make a positive difference.By overcoming two obstacles: resistance to change and polarization. From a prob...

Reducere. A woman's birthday party takes a dark turn in a poignant, heart-stopping new novel from the reigning queen of suspense, NYT and USA Today bestselli...

Reducere. Roman autobiografic de o forta literara neobisnuita, cartea a doua a seriei Lupta mea a dat nastere unei polemici virulente si a primit inca de la ...

Reducere. Roman autobiografic de o forta literara neobisnuita, cartea a doua a seriei Lupta mea a dat nastere unei polemici virulente. Dupa ce a abordat in p...

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