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  The Awakening And Selected Stories

  by Sandra M. Gilbert, Kate Chopin

  Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century American writers, whose fiction explored new and often starting territory. When her most famous story, "The Awakening", was first published in 1899, it stunned readers with its frank portrayal of the inner word of Edna Pontellier, and its daring criticisms of the limits of marriage and motherhood. From her first stories, Chopin was... (more)
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  Recollections of a Picture Dealer

  by Ambroise Vollard

  A captivating account of the Parisian art world at the turn of the twentieth century, these memoirs offer firsthand impressions of Manet, Matisse, Picasso, Rousseau, Vuillard, and other famous artists. Art merchant and socialite Ambroise Vollard (1867-1939) possessed a keen ability to recognize genius in painters as well as a natural warmth and candor, a combination of traits that earned him the friendship of a... (more)
• Lautrec;: Biographical and critical studies (The Taste of our time)Jacques Lassaigne

  

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  Lautrec;: Biographical and critical studies (The Taste of our time)

  by Jacques Lassaigne

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  Aesthetes and decadents of the 1890's;: An anthology of British poetry and prose

  by Beckson

  In his introduction to this now classic anthology, Karl Beckson traces the development of the Decadent or Aesthetic movement, illuminating the selected work of such as Wilde, Yeats, Symons, and Beerbohm that follows.
• Life With Father.Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse

  

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  Life With Father.

  by Russel Crouse

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  Life With Father

  by Clarence Day

  Clarence Day's comic stories of his father, Clarence "Clare" Day Senior are taken from the "New Yorker" magazine. They portray a rambunctious, overburdened Wall Street broker who demands that everything from his family should be just so. When it isn't, all hell breaks loose and an amusing sight it is too from a safe enough distance. Clare is intolerant, tyrannical and plain obnoxious in his constant battle to... (more)
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  1900 : Art at the Crossroads

  by Robert Rosenblum

  Exactly 100 years ago, art was at a crossroads. Painters such as Sargent, Whistler, Homer, and Rouault were widely acclaimed. Czanne, Degas, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rodin, Munch, Klimt, and other modern masters were in their prime. And the revolutionaries who would go on to change the course of Western art-Picasso, Matisse, Mondrian, Kandinsky, and Nolde, among others-were just getting started. This... (more)
• Degas: An Intimate PortaitAmbroise Vollard

  

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  Degas: An Intimate Portait

  by Ambroise Vollard

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  The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Collins Classics S.)

  by Oscar Wilde

  Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is The Happy Prince. Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which shocked and outraged many readers of his day, and his stories for adults which exhibited his... (more)
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  The Immoralist (Dover Thrift Editions)

  by Andre Gide, Richard Howard

  In The Immoralist , André Gide presents the confessional account of a man seeking the truth of his own nature. The story's protagonist, Michel, knows nothing about love when he marries the gentle Marceline out of duty to his father. On the couple's honeymoon to Tunisia, Michel becomes very ill, and during his recovery he meets a young Arab boy whose radiant health and beauty captivate him. An awakening for him... (more)
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  Lettres à Théodore Hannon

  by Joris-Karl Huysmans

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  The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War One

  by Roger Shattuck

  Portrays the cultural bohemia of turn-of-the-century Paris who carried the arts into a period of renewal and accomplishment, who laid the ground-work for Dadaism and Surrealism.
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  Doctor Glas: A Novel

  by Hjalmar Söderberg

  Stark, brooding, and enormously controversial when first published in 1905, this astonishing novel juxtaposes impressions of fin-de-siècle Stockholm against the psychological landscape of a man besieged by obsession. Lonely and introspective, Doctor Glas has long felt an instinctive hostility toward the odious local minister. So when the minister’s beautiful wife complains of her husband’s oppressive sexual... (more)
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  The Dedalus Book of German Decadence: Voices of the Abyss (Decadence from Dedalus)

  anthology: Sacher-Masoch to Thomas Mann
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  Daughters of Decadence: Women Writers of the Fin De Siecle

  by Elaine Showalter

  At the turn of the century, short stories by--and often about--"New Women" flooded the pages English and American magazines such as the Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, and the Yellow Book. This daring new fiction, often innovative in form and courageous in its candid representations of female sexuality, marital discontent, and feminist protest, shocked Victorian critics, who denounced the authors as "literary... (more)
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  Toulouse-Lautrec

  by Danie?le Devynck, Edward Lucie-Smith, Henri DeToulouse-Lautrec, Richard Thomson, Matthias Arnold

  The world of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was inhabited by denizens of the street and night life of fin-de-siecle Paris - with its dance halls, bars, brothels and circuses. Portraying this world in his paintings, drawings , posters and prints, Lautrec created a vibrant body of art that earned him lasting renown. Lautrec was born in 1864 into one of the oldest noble families in France. At the age of 13 it was... (more)