French Decadent Tales by Léon Bloy, Gustave Geffroy, Pierre Louÿs, Octave Mirbeau, Stephen Romer, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Guy de Maupassant, Georges Rodenbach, Rémy de Gourmont, Catulle Mendès, Jean Lorrain, Jean Richepin, Jules Laforgue, Marcel Schwob, Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

231 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

fiction short stories adventurous lighthearted medium-paced
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'He had become the dandy of the unpredictable.' A quest for new sensations, and an avowed desire to shock possessed the Decadent writers of fin-de-siècle Paris. The years 1880-1900 saw an extraordinary, hothouse flowering of talent, that produced ...

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