Against Nature
Publisher: Dover Publications, Incorporated
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780486826615
Subjects: Fiction, general
Description: "In this 1884 novel, the last scion of a once-powerful family retreats from his bourgeois life in Paris to an isolated villa where he spends his days in intellectual and aesthetic contemplation. A classic account of the quest for enlarged experience and new sensations, Against Nature scandalized Victorian critics with its break from naturalism and embrace of fin-de-siecle decadence"--