Against Nature

Des Esseintes is a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where her indulges his taste for luxury and excess. Veering between nervous excitability and debilitating ennui, he gluts his aesthetic appetites with classical literature and art, exotic jewels (with which he fatally encrusts the shell of his tortoise).

• | By (Author): Joris-Karl Huysmans
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• | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• | Publication Date: May 01, 2003
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0140447636
• | ISBN-13: 9780140447637