An edition of À rebours (1900)

Against nature.

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An edition of À rebours (1900)

Against nature.

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"A rebours" is a novel by a French writer (translated: "Against the forward direction"). All the novel is concentrate in one eccentric character and it's inner life: Jean des Esseintes. This upper-class antihero is an aesthete who loath his contemporaries and lives retreated in his once splendid and rich home, where he collects objects of art, reads and comments his readings.

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Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
220

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Subjects
Romans (teksten), Aesthetics, decadent, Fiction, Fantasy, Aesthetics in fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization, French fiction, Gifted children, Education, Fiction, general, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), LGBTQ novels before Stonewall, Aesthetics--fiction, Pq2309.h4 a6213 2003, 843.8
People
Fictional character: Jean des Esseintes
Places
Somewhere near Paris
Times
Late 19th century

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Against nature
2003, Penguin Books
in English
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Against nature =: A rebours
1998, Oxford University Press
in English
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À rebours
1977, Gallimard
in French - 2e éd. rev. et augm.
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A rebours
1968, Fasquelle
in French
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Against nature.
1959, Penguin Books
in English
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Cover of: A rebours.
A rebours.: Avec une préf. de l'auteur écrite vingt ans après le roman et une bibliographie complète de l'oeuvre.
1922, G. Crès
in French

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Series
Penguin classics,, L86

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
843.8
Library of Congress
PZ3.H987 Ag

The Physical Object

Pagination
220 p.
Number of pages
220

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Open Library
OL6266397M
Internet Archive
againstnature00huys
ISBN 10
0486221903
LCCN
59001598
OCLC/WorldCat
5957287
Library Thing
67888
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653271

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