Against nature / Joris-Karl Huysmans ; translated by Robert Baldick ; with an introduction and notes by Patrick McGuinness.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Penguin classicsPublication details: London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2003.Description: xxxviii, 242 p. ; 20 cmISBN: - 0140447636
- 9780140447637
- A rebours. English
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The hero of this curious novel is des Esseintes, a neurasthenic aristocrat who has turned his back on the vulgarity of modern life and retreated to an isolated country villa. Here, accompanied only by a couple of silent servants, he pursues his obsessions with exotic flowers, rare gems, and complex perfumes and embarks on a series of increasingly strange aesthetic experiments, starting with the decision to give his giant pet tortoise a jewel-encrusted shell...
Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxvii]-xxxviii).
Translated from the French.