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A Woman's Affair by Liane DE POUGY
Category: No Category | Series: Dedalus European Classics Ser.
This is the first English translation of Liane de Pougy's 1901 novel A Woman's Affair (Idylle Saphique) which shocked French readers with its lesbian lover story, and is based on Liane de Pougy's affair with Natalie Barney. Despite her beauty and her riches, Annhine de Lys, one of the most notorious cou ...Show more
Bruges-La-Morte by Georges RODENBACH
Category: No Category | Series: Dedalus European Classics Ser.
Bruges-la-Morte, which first appeared in 1892, concerns the fate of Hugues Viane, a widower who has turned to the melancholy, decaying city of Bruges as the ideal location in which to mourn his wife and as a suitable haven for the narcissistic perambulations of his inexorably disturbed spirit. Bruges, t ...Show more
La-Bas by J. K. [Translated by Brendan KING] HUYSMANS
Category: No Category | Series: Dedalus European Classics Ser.
'Literally translated as "down there", l -bas is here used by Huysmans in its other sense: Hell. This novel is one of the key texts of the Decadent movement of the 1890s and writhes with satanists, occultists, incubi (male demons), succubi (female demons) and intellectuals. Durtal is a disaffected, midd ...Show more
The Perfume of the Lady in Black by Gaston Leroux
Category: Classics | Series: Dedalus European Classics Ser.
In The Perfume of the Lady in Black, Joseph Rouletabille, the young journalist turned detective, is once more pitted against his arch-enemy Frederic Larsan. The mysterious crime committed in the Square Tower again directly challenges the reader to find the correct solution - though to do so tests even R ...Show more
The White Dominican by Gustav MEYRINK
Category: No Category | Series: Dedalus European Classics Ser.
The White Dominican is Meyrink's most esoteric novel, and draws on the wisdom of a number of mystical traditions, the most important of which is Tao. It is set in a mystical version of the Bavarian town of Wassserburg which sits on a promontory surrounded on three sides by the river Inn. The novel descr ...Show more
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