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Decadence Books
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Against Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.80 — 15,139 ratings — published 1884
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,851,412 ratings — published 1890
Les Fleurs du Mal (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.19 — 79,801 ratings — published 1857
Là-Bas (Down There)
by (shelved 34 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,717 ratings — published 1891
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.52 — 153 ratings — published
Salomé (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.71 — 20,741 ratings — published 1891
The Torture Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,832 ratings — published 1899
Venus in Furs (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.63 — 16,496 ratings — published 1870
Il piacere (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.49 — 7,702 ratings — published 1889
Nightmares of an Ether Drinker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.94 — 226 ratings — published 1895
Les Diaboliques (Pocket Book)
by (shelved 17 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,012 ratings — published 1874
Monsieur Vénus (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,001 ratings — published 1884
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,854,985 ratings — published 1925
Paris Spleen (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.23 — 15,443 ratings — published 1857
Monsieur de Phocas (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.14 — 183 ratings — published 1901
Bruges-La-Morte (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,083 ratings — published 1892
Death in Venice (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.68 — 67,738 ratings — published 1911
The Soul-Drinker and Other Decadent Fantasies (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.24 — 41 ratings — published 2016
The Dedalus Book of Decadence: Moral Ruins (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.17 — 69 ratings — published 1990
French Decadent Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.97 — 217 ratings — published 2013
Maldoror and the Complete Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,960 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 — 125,988 ratings — published 1945
Mademoiselle de Maupin (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,405 ratings — published 1835
Disagreeable Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.55 — 562 ratings — published 1894
Salammbo (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.73 — 6,579 ratings — published 1862
Dreamers of Decadence (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.39 — 142 ratings — published 1969
On Wine and Hashish (Hesperus Classics)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,315 ratings — published 1851
Tomorrow's Eve (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.16 — 697 ratings — published 1886
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.06 — 376,521 ratings — published 1971
The Great God Pan (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.67 — 16,478 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 — 592 ratings — published 1986
Bel-Ami (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.86 — 48,590 ratings — published 1885
Contes cruels (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.62 — 764 ratings — published 1883
The Hill of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,346 ratings — published 1907
The Importance of Being Earnest (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.17 — 403,622 ratings — published 1895
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,728 ratings — published 1873
The Dedalus Book of French Horror: The 19th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.03 — 63 ratings — published 1997
The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.45 — 101 ratings — published 1998
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.46 — 98,234 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 3.90 — 2,099 ratings — published 1863
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 7 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,628 ratings — published 1990
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.84 — 71,065 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 4.15 — 78 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
The Book of Absinthe: A Cultural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.95 — 295 ratings — published 2001
The Book of Jade (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.15 — 61 ratings — published 1901
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.47 — 15,351 ratings — published 1908
“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
“(Decadent style) is ingenious, complicated, learned, full of shades of meaning and research, always pushing further the limits of language... forcing itself to express in thought that which is most ineffable, and in form the vaguest and most fleeting contours; listening that it may translate them to the subtle confidences of the neuropath, to the avowals of aging and depraved passion, and to the singular hallucinations of the fixed idea verging on madness... In opposition to the classic style, it admits of shading, and these shadows teem and swarm with the larvae of superstitions, the haggard phantoms of insomnia, nocturnal terrors, remorse which starts and turns back at the slightest noise, monstrous dreams stayed only by impotence, obscure phantasies at which daylight would stand amazed, and all that the soul conceals of the dark, the unformed, and the vaguely horrible, in its deepest and furthest recesses.”
― Charles Baudelaire and His Life
― Charles Baudelaire and His Life
