TY  - BOOK
AU  - Romer,Stephen
TI  - French decadent tales
T2  - Oxford world's classics
SN  - 9780199569274 (pbk.)
AV  - PQ1276.D34 F74 2013
U1  - 843.010807 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Short stories, French
KW  - Translations into English
KW  - French fiction
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Decadence (Literary movement)
KW  - France
KW  - Paris (France)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Fiction
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Don Juan's crowning love-affair; Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly --; The presentiment; The desire to be a man; Sentimentalism; Villiers De L'Isle-Adam --; What the shadow demands; Catulle Mendès --; A dentist terribly punished; The last bake; The lucky sixpence; Léon Bloy --; On a cure; The bath; The first emotion; The little summer-house; Octave Mirbeau --; Constant Guignard; Deshoulières; Pft! Pft!; Jean Richepin --; At the death-bed; A walk; The tresses; Night; Guy De Maupassant --; The statue; Gustave Geffroy --; An unsolved crime; The student's tale; The man with the bracelet; The man who loved consumptives; Jean Lorrain --; The time; Georges Rodenbach --; Danaette; The faun; Don Juan's secret; On the threshold; Remy De Gourmont --; Perseus and Andromeda; Jules Laforgue --; The brothel; The sans-gueule; 52 and 53 Orfila; Lucretius, poet; Paolo Uccello, painter; Marcel Schwob --; A case without precedent; Pierre Louÿs
N2  - "This newly translated selection of 36 of the best decadent tales from the French fin-de-siecle brings together some the most exotic, stylized, and cerebral literature in the French language. Hilarious and horrifying, these extraordinary, corrosive little tales cast a cold eye on the modern world"--back cover
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