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Against Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.79 — 15,777 ratings — published 1884
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,976,515 ratings — published 1890
Les Fleurs du Mal (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.19 — 83,030 ratings — published 1857
Là-Bas (Down There)
by (shelved 36 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,942 ratings — published 1891
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.55 — 152 ratings — published
Salomé (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.71 — 21,749 ratings — published 1891
The Torture Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,937 ratings — published 1899
Venus in Furs (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.62 — 17,507 ratings — published 1870
Il piacere (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.49 — 8,132 ratings — published 1889
Nightmares of an Ether Drinker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.95 — 241 ratings — published 1895
Les Diaboliques (Pocket Book)
by (shelved 18 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,109 ratings — published 1874
Paris Spleen (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.23 — 15,871 ratings — published 1857
Monsieur Vénus (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,103 ratings — published 1884
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,098,726 ratings — published 1925
Monsieur de Phocas (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.14 — 192 ratings — published 1901
Death in Venice (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.68 — 72,769 ratings — published 1911
The Soul-Drinker and Other Decadent Fantasies (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.21 — 42 ratings — published 2016
Bruges-La-Morte (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,342 ratings — published 1892
The Dedalus Book of Decadence: Moral Ruins (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.15 — 71 ratings — published 1990
French Decadent Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.96 — 218 ratings — published 2013
Maldoror and the Complete Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,018 ratings — published 1869
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.00 — 130,608 ratings — published 1945
Mademoiselle de Maupin (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,452 ratings — published 1835
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.06 — 386,774 ratings — published 1971
The Hill of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,430 ratings — published 1907
Disagreeable Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.52 — 610 ratings — published 1894
Salammbo (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.73 — 6,892 ratings — published 1862
Dreamers of Decadence (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.37 — 145 ratings — published 1969
On Wine and Hashish (Hesperus Classics)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,339 ratings — published 1851
The Great God Pan (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.66 — 17,642 ratings — published 1890
Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siècle Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.30 — 608 ratings — published 1986
Bel-Ami (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.87 — 51,116 ratings — published 1885
Contes cruels (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.61 — 803 ratings — published 1883
The Importance of Being Earnest (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.17 — 414,190 ratings — published 1895
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,770 ratings — published 1873
The Dedalus Book of French Horror: The 19th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.03 — 64 ratings — published 1997
The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.44 — 103 ratings — published 1998
Tomorrow's Eve (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.14 — 737 ratings — published 1886
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.46 — 100,380 ratings — published 1959
The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence: The Black Feast (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.34 — 29 ratings — published 1992
The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays (Phaidon Arts and Letters)
by (shelved 7 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,177 ratings — published 1863
The Romantic Agony (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.16 — 304 ratings — published 1930
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.84 — 73,242 ratings — published 1953
The Book of Masks: An Anthology of French Symbolist & Decadent Writing (Atlas Arkhive, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.14 — 77 ratings — published 1896
The Double Star and Other Occult Fantasies (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.10 — 86 ratings — published 2018
Misty Thule (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.11 — 19 ratings — published 1891
Decadence and Symbolism: A Showcase Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.69 — 16 ratings — published 2018
Dream Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.76 — 23,042 ratings — published 1926
The Book of Absinthe: A Cultural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.95 — 296 ratings — published 2001
The Book of Jade (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.11 — 64 ratings — published 1901
“You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep”
― Lorenzaccio
― Lorenzaccio
“The madness of the eyes is the lure of the abyss. Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they lurk at the bottom of the sea, that I know for sure - but I have never encountered them, and I am searching still for the profound and plaintive gazes in whose depths I might be able, like Hamlet redeemed, to drown the Ophelia of my desire.”
― Monsieur de Phocas
― Monsieur de Phocas
