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
242

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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
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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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London, New York

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxvii]-xxxviii).

Series
Penguin classics

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
843/.8
Library of Congress
PQ2309.H4 A6213 2003, PQ2309.H4

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxviii, 242 p. ;
Number of pages
242

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3319473M
Internet Archive
againstnature0000huys
ISBN 10
0140447636
LCCN
2004270858
Library Thing
67888
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210255

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