Against Nature EPUB
by Joris-Karl Huysmans
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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...
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- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:01/05/2003
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- ISBN:9780141906607
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:01/05/2003
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- ISBN:9780141906607