β Ralph Waldo Emerson
π Fiction
π
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The Decadent World-View Selected Essays
β Scribed by Brian Stableford
- Publisher
- Wildside Press LLC.
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 144 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The new collection features 14 essays relevant to the Literary Decadence movement, including pieces on: Joris-Karl Huysmans, Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Aloysius Bertrand, ThΓ©ophile Gautier, Victor Hugo, HonorΓ© de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, Γmile Zola, Edmond de Goncourt, and Anatole France. Complete with bibliography and index.
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