num_pages: 300
description: Once described as "the most sickening work of art of the nineteenth century", Mirbeau's classic novel follows a young man's journey to the ends of desire and depravity in a garden in China where torture is practiced as a work of art.
language: English
title: The Torture Garden
titlecomplete: The Torture Garden (Decadence)
genres: Fiction, France, Erotica, French Literature, Horror, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 2538
publisher: Hippocrene Books