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Against Nature (Penguin Classics) by Joris-Karl Huysmans, Patrick McGuinness, Robert Baldick is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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The hero of this curious novel is des Esseintes, a neurasthenic aristocrat who has turned his back on the vulgarity of modern life and retreated to an isolated country villa. Here, accompanied only by a couple of silent servants, he pursues his obsessions with exotic flowers, rare gems, and complex perfumes and embarks on a series of increasingly strange aesthetic experiments, starting with the decision to give his giant pet tortoise a jewel-encrusted shell...
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Joris-Karl Huysmans, Patrick McGuinness, Robert Baldick
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780141906607
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Romance, Literary Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (332 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Gegen den Strich. (1992)
- Against The Grain (2011)
- Against Nature: Á rebours (2013)
- Against Nature (Penguin Classics) (2001)
- Against the grain = À rebours (2009)
- Against Nature (2018)
- Against the Grain - Joris-Karl Huysmans (ANNOTATED) Full Version of Great Classics Work (2004)
- Against Nature (A Rebours) (2001)
- Against the Grain (À Rebours) (1972)
- Against the Grain (2014)
- À Rebours (Édition enrichie) (2016)
- À Rebours (Édition enrichie) (1977)
- Against the Grain (2007)
- Against the Grain (2022)
- Against Nature (Oxford World's Classics) (1998)
- À rebours (2015)
- A Rebours (1994)
- À rebours (1978)
- Against the Grain (2004)
- À Rebours (2022)
- Against Nature: A New Translation of `A Rebours' (Penguin Classics) (1959)
- Against the Grain (2015)
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