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Becalmed

Product Description: The protagonist of "Becalmed" seeks spiritual shelter in the countryside. He finds not rest but a nightmare â a gruesome crumbling house, peasants both stupid and cunning, and the landscape â indeed the whole natural world â in a ghastly state of decay...read more

By Terry Hale (trans) and J. K. Huysmans

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9780947757304 | Atlas Pr, March 1, 1993, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: The protagonist of "Becalmed" seeks spiritual shelter in the countryside.

Marthe Joris: The Story of a Woman

Product Description: One of the first French novels to tackle the subject of prostitution, this story centres on would-be actress Marthe who lives in one of the lowest dives in Paris and her ultimately doomed relationship with Leo, a romantic searching for something to take place of lost illusions."

By J. K. Huysmans

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9781557131386 | Sun & Moon Pr, July 1, 1992, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: One of the first French novels to tackle the subject of prostitution, this story centres on would-be actress Marthe who lives in one of the lowest dives in Paris and her ultimately doomed relationship with Leo, a romantic searching for something to take place of lost illusions.

En Menage

Product Description: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process...read more

By J. K. Huysmans

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9780785901228 | French & European Pubns, January 1, 1991, cover price $22.01 | About this edition: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.

9780685349236 | French & European Pubns, June 1, 1979, cover price $49.95

The Road from Decadence: From Brothel to Cloister : Selected Letters of J.K. Huysmans

By Barbara Beaumont and J. K. Huysmans

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9780814204924 | Ohio State Univ Pr, April 1, 1989, cover price $58.50

LA Bas/Lower Depths

Product Description: This new translation by Brendan King vividly recalls the allusive, proto-expressionist vigour of the original. A fine introduction shows where Huysman's mystical quest ended, and the notes prove vital.

By J. K. Huysmans

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9780946626199 | Reprint edition (Hippocrene Books, August 1, 1987), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: This new translation by Brendan King vividly recalls the allusive, proto-expressionist vigour of the original.

The Vatard Sisters

Product Description: "The Vatard Sisters brought Huysmans to the notice of the public and revealed him as a man who could paint word-pictures which put earlier practitioners like Gautier and Edmond de Goncourt in the shadeâ¦The novel is a story of two working-class sisters, but the main protagonist is Paris, suburban Paris, the Paris of railway stations, cheap restaurants and cafÃ©-concertsâ¦and the passages that describe the music-halls and crowds of the Avenue de Maine and the Boulevard Saint Michel, or the railway yard seen from the back window of the sisters' bedroom, have a visual immediacyâ¦a kind of energy, a force of personality, which are utterly unusual in Huysmans' workâ¦"â¨Anita Brookner in The Genius of the Futur...read more

By J. K. Huysmans

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9780813114262 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, May 1, 1984, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: "The Vatard Sisters brought Huysmans to the notice of the public and revealed him as a man who could paint word-pictures which put earlier practitioners like Gautier and Edmond de Goncourt in the shadeâ¦The novel is a story of two working-class sisters, but the main protagonist is Paris, suburban Paris, the Paris of railway stations, cheap restaurants and cafÃ©-concertsâ¦and the passages that describe the music-halls and crowds of the Avenue de Maine and the Boulevard Saint Michel, or the railway yard seen from the back window of the sisters' bedroom, have a visual immediacyâ¦a kind of energy, a force of personality, which are utterly unusual in Huysmans' workâ¦"â¨Anita Brookner in The Genius of the Future

St. Lydwine of Schiedam

Product Description: St. Lydwine was bedridden from the age of fifteen, when she broke a rib while ice skating, and endured a lifelong illness that was probably one of the first documented cases of multiple sclerosis. Her body became covered with sores and abscesses and virtually came apart into three piecesâsymbolically representing the condition of the Church...read more

By J. K. Huysmans

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9780895550873 | Reprint edition (Tan Books & Pub, June 1, 1979), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: St.

Down There/ La-bas

A novel of satanism that explores the occult community found in Paris during the nineteenth century

By J. K. Huysmans

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9780486228372 | Dover Pubns, June 1, 1972, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A novel of satanism that explores the occult community found in Paris during the nineteenth century

Grunewald: Le Retable D'issenheim

By J. K. Huysmans

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9780320057632 | French & European Pubns, June 30, 1945, cover price $95.00

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