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Monsieur de Phocas: Translated From The French With An Introduction And Afterword By Francis Amery (aka Brian Stableford).

By: Lorrain, Jean

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2015.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 39545

ISBN: 1905784783

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

300 pages: 26-page introduction and nine page afterword by Brian Stableford writing as, and indeed translating as, ''Francis Amery''. LIMITED EDITION: 350 copes printed.

''Monsieur de Phocas (1901) has been ranked with Huysmans Rebours (1884) as the summation of the French Decadent Movement. In the novel, Jean Lorrain presents experiences of the darker side of his life in Paris as the adventures of the Duc de Frneuse (Phocas) and his relationship with the svengaliesque English painter Claudius Ethal. Jean Lorrain, born into a shipping family in Normandy in 1855, changed his name to k...
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Monsieur de Bougrelon.

By: Lorrain, Jean

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Side Real Press: Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.: 2020.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 48244

Binding: Oversize hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy as issued without dustjacket (as new).

Oversize hardcover. Originally published in 1897, this novella by arch-decadent Jean Lorrain (the pseudonym of Paul Alexandre Martin Duval, 1855-1906) is newly translated and annotated by Brian Stableford with a 12-page introduction, illustrated with 16 original etchings in colour, engraved by Drian, plus a ten-page essay on the artist Drian by Sandrine Tinturier. LIMITED EDITION: 300 numbered copies printed. A very attractively produced hardcover.

''Those familiar with Lorrains decadent oeuvre such as his novel Monsieur De Phocas will be unsurprised to learn that this novella is equ...
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Author:Lorrain, Jean

Monsieur de Phocas: Translated From The French With An Introduction And Afterword By Francis Amery (aka Brian Stableford).

Monsieur de Bougrelon.

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