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Decadence Books
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Against Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.79 — 15,644 ratings — published 1884
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,951,251 ratings — published 1890
Les Fleurs du Mal (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.19 — 83,212 ratings — published 1857
Là-Bas (Down There)
by (shelved 36 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,897 ratings — published 1891
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.55 — 153 ratings — published
Salomé (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.71 — 21,597 ratings — published 1891
The Torture Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,912 ratings — published 1899
Venus in Furs (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.62 — 17,301 ratings — published 1870
Il piacere (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.49 — 8,025 ratings — published 1889
Nightmares of an Ether Drinker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.95 — 238 ratings — published 1895
Les Diaboliques (Pocket Book)
by (shelved 18 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,094 ratings — published 1874
Monsieur Vénus (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,079 ratings — published 1884
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,051,873 ratings — published 1925
Paris Spleen (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.23 — 15,772 ratings — published 1857
Monsieur de Phocas (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.14 — 188 ratings — published 1901
Death in Venice (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.68 — 71,646 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 — 3,300 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 — 217 ratings — published 2013
Maldoror and the Complete Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,013 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 — 129,433 ratings — published 1945
Mademoiselle de Maupin (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,442 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 — 384,850 ratings — published 1971
The Hill of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,415 ratings — published 1907
Disagreeable Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.53 — 601 ratings — published 1894
Salammbo (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.73 — 6,824 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 — 1,333 ratings — published 1851
The Great God Pan (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.66 — 17,348 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 — 605 ratings — published 1986
Bel-Ami (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.87 — 50,615 ratings — published 1885
The Importance of Being Earnest (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.17 — 412,333 ratings — published 1895
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,763 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 3.13 — 733 ratings — published 1886
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.46 — 99,970 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 — 2,166 ratings — published 1863
The Romantic Agony (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.16 — 303 ratings — published 1930
Contes cruels (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.61 — 799 ratings — published 1883
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.84 — 72,802 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 4.11 — 84 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 — 296 ratings — published 2001
The Book of Jade (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.11 — 64 ratings — published 1901
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.47 — 15,500 ratings — published 1908
“(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
“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
