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The cathedral, by J.-K. Huysmans, - Tr. from the French by Clara Bell, and ed. with a prefatory note by C. Kegan Paul is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of histor...

Meet Jean des Esseintes: reclusive, diseased, the last scion of an outmoded aristocratic family. He is also an unapologetic aesthete, prone to overwhelmingly intense sensory experiences in the presence of art. As he finds himself ever more enervated by the illness that consumes him, des Esseintes turns his back on wider society - a society he loathes - and retreats "upwards into dream, seeking refuge in illusions of extravagant fantasy." The r...

Huysmans's early works excel in their descriptive ability and he is one of the greatest authors in describing the life of Paris and its surroundings as witnessed by his Parisian Sketches (Dedalus translation by Brendan King in 2004). The publication of "A Rebours" in 1884, made Huysmans one of the most famous authors of his day. His novel about Satanism, "La-Bas" (1891) is surely the cult novel of the nineteenth century. (Brendan King's transl...

Le héros Durtal, un médiocre auteur parisien, écrit une biographie de Gilles de Rais qui fut accusé, au XVe siècle, d'avoir violé et torturé des dizaines d'enfants. Afin de se documenter, Durtal s'entretient avec ses amis d'occultisme, d'astrologie, de spiritisme, de magie et tout particulièrement de satanisme dont il apprend la persistance à l'époque contemporaine. En parallèle il entretient une relation avec une admiratrice, madame Chantelou...

« La Bièvre représente aujourd'hui le plus parfait symbole de la misère féminine exploitée par une grande ville. Née dans l'étang de Saint-Quentin, près de Trappes, elle court, fluette, dans la vallée qui porte son nom, et, mythologiquement, on se la figure, incarnée en une fillette à peine pubère, en une naïade toute petite, jouant encore à la poupée, sous des saules...»

The Crowds of Lourdes, first published in 1906, was J.-K. Huysmans last book, and certainly his greatest work of non-fiction. Written in a style that is at once precise and brutal, this Naturalist study of the pilgrim-crowds of Lourdes, presented as a series of closely connected vignettes full of highly coloured description, is sometimes somber, sometimes scathing, and often touching. In these pages the reader will find a whole-hearted tribute...

A new editon of the classic novella from 1882, along with "The Retreat Of Monsieur Bougran".

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This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, a...

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Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907) ist heute vor allem als Erfinder des sinnesverwirrenden Dandys und Exzentrikers Jean Floressas des Esseintes bekannt, der sich im Roman »Gegen den Strich« von der Wirklichkeit abwendet, um ein ästhetisierendes Leben in einem eigens dafür eingerichteten Haus zu führen, in dem u.a. eine juwelenbesetzte Schildkröte auf dem Teppich herumspaziert und das Schlafzimmer mit Schreckensbildern geschmückt ist. Huysmans hat...

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