Against Nature - Joris K. Huysmans

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

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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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

Reducere. DescriptionOld age happens whether you like it or not. Your final years have arrived, and you must deal with it. You wish that these years had neve...

Reducere. RidgeLines is an exploration of nature and human nature. It is celebration, wonderment, reflection, and deep inquiry. The stories, though in the au...

Publisher: Scribe PublicationsAuthor(s): Jeff SparrowNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 233 x 22Cover type: Paperback / so...

DescriptionUnlicensed P.I. Duck Darley has found a comfortable niche above the streets of Manhattan. But a desperate text from Cass Kimball, the pa...

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...

Reducere. DescriptionOver the past several years, scholars, activists, and analysts have begun to examine the growing divide between the wealthy and the rest...

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

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A global history of environmental warfare and the case for why it should be a crime The environmental infrastructure that sustains human societies ...

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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...

DescriptionThe phrase "teaching for social justice" is often used, but not always explained. What does it look like to teach for social justice? Wh...

Reducere. Seduced by a Sociopath explains how millions of people pursuing romantic relationships are charming, affectionate, passionate -- and fake. These de...

In Sins against Nature Zeb Tortorici explores the prosecution of sex acts in colonial New Spain (present-day Mexico, Guatemala, the US Southwest, a...

Drawing on over 300 prosecutions of sex acts in colonial New Spain between 1530 and 1821, Zeb Tortorici shows how courts used the concept "against ...

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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...