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Torture Garden (Empire of the Senses)

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Publisher Comments:

Novel. "This hideously decadent fin-de-siecle novel by the French anarchist Mirbeau has become an underground classic... There are satirical and allegorical dimensions, but it remains irreducibly horrible" (The Sunday Times). First published in 1898, the decadent classic Oscar Wilde recommended as "revolting...a sort of grey adder" is available in a new edition from Dedalus, translated by Michael Richardson and with an introduction by Brian Stableford. The century that has passed since its first publication has done nothing to tame the book that, in Anne Billson's words, "flays civilised society down to its hypocritical bones and is le dernier cri in kinky eroticism."

Product Details

ISBN:
9781873982532
Editor:
Stableford, Brian
Translator:
Richardson, Michael
Editor:
Stableford, Brian
Author:
Mirbeau, Octave
Author:
Richardson, Michael
Publisher:
Dedalus,
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
Erotica
Subject:
Erotica - General
Edition Description:
New
Series:
Empire of the Senses
Publication Date:
December 1997
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
206
Dimensions:
7.80x5.12x.62 in. .43 lbs.

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