'He had become the dandy of the unpredictable.' A quest for new sensations, and an avowed desire to shock possessed the Decadent writers of fin-de-siècle Paris

"The present volume contains thirty-five fairy tales by nineteen writers, presented chronologically by author"--Introduction.

This newly translated selection of 36 of the best decadent tales from the French fin-de-siècle brings together some the most exotic, stylized, and cerebral lit

The poems collected in this volume are expressions of a spirit of self-indulgence, eroticism and moral rebelliousness that emerged in the late Victorian age. Th