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"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."

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Against the Grain
• Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232
• EAN: 9781598189414
• ISBN: 9781598189414
• ID: 08763687
• Publisher: Alan Rodgers Books
• Weight: 378 g
• Dimensions: 151 × 228 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. August 2006

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