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Renée (La Curée)


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Catalogue des objets d'art et d'ameublement. Sculptures par Houdon, Clodion, etc.; Très-belles pendules, grands candélabres, flambeaux, bras, chenets, etc. en bronze doré du temps de Louis XVI; Pendule en vieux Sèvres; Porcelaines diverses; Faïences; Bronzes d'art; Belle horloge Louis XIV en marqueterie; Sièges en tapisserie; Beaux meubles des époques XIV, Louis XV et Louis XVI. Très-belles tapisseries. Tableaux anciens et modernes. Aquarelles. Dépendant de la succession de feu Madame la Comtesse de Montesquiou-Fezensac...


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Cynicism and Postmodernity


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In this original and provocative book, Timothy Bewes descends into the modern cynical consciousness with a critical assessment of the preoccupations of contemporary society.




The Life of J.-K. Huysmans


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Like Froude's biography of Carlyle, Holroyd's Shaw, and Ellmann's Joyce, Robert Baldick's Life of J.-K. Huysmans has become not just a standard reference work, to be consulted as regularly as the writing of the author whose life it chronicles, but a work of literature in its own right. First published fifty years ago, Baldick's classic biography presents a compelling narrative of Huysmans' life and work in all its various phases - from the Naturalism of the 1870s to the Decadence of the 1880s, and from the occult vogue of the 1890s to the Catholic Revival of the turn of the century - and it is written with such impeccable scholarship that it is still relied on today as regards matters of fact and detail. For this new edition - the first time the biography has been reprinted in English -Baldick's notes have been extensively revised and updated by Brendan King to take account of new developments and publications in the field of Huysmansian studies.