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Title details for Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans - Available

Against Nature

by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Patrick McGuinness
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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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Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Kindle Book

  • Release date: May 1, 2003

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  • ISBN: 9780141906607
  • Release date: May 1, 2003

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  • ISBN: 9780141906607
  • File size: 417 KB
  • Release date: May 1, 2003

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Kindle Book
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subjects

Classic Literature Fiction

Languages

English

Levels

Lexile® Measure:1600
Text Difficulty:12

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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Classic Literature Fiction