Product Description: Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@publicdomain.org.uk This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via DMCA@publicdomain...read more

Product Description: Issue d’une ancienne famille noble mais ruinée, Lydwine est la seule fille d’une fratrie de 10 enfants. Jolie et gracieuse, elle préfère se consacrer à Dieu et repousse tous ses prétendants. À l’âge de 15 ans, elle est victime d’une chute alors qu’elle patine avec des amies...read more

Product Description: “...« Seigneur, prenez pitié du chrétien qui doute, de l’incrédule qui voudrait croire, du forçat de la vie qui s’embarque seul, dans la nuit, sous un firmament que n’éclairent plus les consolants fanaux du vieil espoir ! » Voilà bien le cri de détresse de la pauvre âme abandonnée à elle-même et qui se tourne vers le ciel par une sorte de mouvement instinctif, parce qu’elle a expérimenté qu’il n’y avait plus aucune miséricorde ni aucune compassion pour elle sur la terre...read more

Product Description: L’intrigue de ce roman est réduite à sa plus simple expression. L’antihéros, Jean des Esseintes, après une vie agitée pendant laquelle il a fait l’expérience de tout ce que pouvait lui offrir la société de son temps, se retire dans un pavillon, à Fontenay-aux-Roses, dans lequel il réunit les ouvrages les plus précieux à ses yeux, les objets les plus rares, pour se consacrer à l’oisiveté et à l’étude...read more

"There was only one living scion of this family which had once been so numerous that it had occupied all the territories of the Ile-de-France and La Brie. The Duc Jean was a slender, nervous young man of thirty, with hollow cheeks, cold, steel-blue eyes, a straight, thin nose and delicate hands." Thus we are introduced to the character of Des Esseintes in a novel that has been banned and censored for years, but still lives on as being one of the finest examples of the "decadent" literature written by fin-de-siecle (late nineteenth century) writers. Oscar Wilde, himself, called the novel "the Breviary of Decadence."

Joris-Karl Huysmans is most famous for this novel AGAINST NATURE and he predicted it would be a failure with the public and critics: "but I don't give a damn! It will be something nobody has ever done before, and I shall have said what I want to say." The book created a storm of publicity; though many older critics were scandalised, it appealed to the young generation. The painter Whistler called it a "marvellous" book. Oscar Wilde regarded it as his "Bible and bedside book." It was to him "one of the best I have ever seen." It was reviewed everywhere as the guidebook of Decadence. AGAINST NATURE is the "poisonous French novel" that leads to the downfall of Dorian Gray in Oscar Wilde's THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY. The book's plot dominated the action of Dorian, causing him to live a life of sin and hedonism.

Product Description: « C’était, au reste, une singulière fille. Des ardeurs étranges, un dégoût de métier, une haine de misère, une aspiration maladive d’inconnu, une désespérance non résignée, le souvenir poignant des mauvais jours sans pain, près de son père malade ; la conviction, née des rancunes de l’artiste dédaigné, que la protection acquise aux prix de toutes les lâchetés et de toutes les vilenies est tout ici-bas ; une appétence de bien-être et d’éclat, un alanguissement morbide, une disposition à la névrose qu’elle tenait de son père, une certaine paresse instinctive qu’elle tenait de sa mère, si brave dans les moments pénibles, si lâche quand la nécessité ne la tenaillait point, fourmillaient et bouillonnaient furieusement en elle...read more

Product Description: The first true flowering of Satanism in erotic art came with the Belgian artist Felicien Rops (1833-1898). Rops, who had met Charles Baudelaire in Paris in 1864 and subsequently become a devoted disciple, thereafter commingled elements of death, prostitution and the Satanic in his work, particularly in his 5-picture series Les Sataniques of 1882...read more

Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

Product Description: Translated by KEENE WALLACE

Product Description: Regarded as a study in Satanism, La-Bas by Huysmans presents the most detailed descriptions of the black magic and rituals. He regarded Satanism as the only logical consequence of the modernism taking roots in society. It is one mans obsession with a figure in history that practised and perpetrated vilest acts...read more