French Decadent Tales by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Georges Rodenbach, Jean Lorrain, Octave Mirbeau, Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Catulle Mendès, Gustave Geffroy, Stephen Romer, Léon Bloy, Rémy de Gourmont, Marcel Schwob, Pierre Louÿs, Guy de Maupassant, Jules Laforgue, Jean Richepin

231 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

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'He had become the dandy of the unpredictable.' A quest for new sensations, and an avowed desire to shock possessed the Decadent writers of fin-de-siècle Paris. The years 1880-1900 saw an extraordinary, hothouse flowering of talent, that produced ...

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