{"product_id":"against-the-grain-by-joris-karl-huysmans-fiction-classics-literary-action-adventure-romance-paperback","title":"Against the Grain by Joris-Karl Huysmans, Fiction, Classics, Literary, Action \u0026 Adventure, Romance - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoris-Karl Huysmans\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJohn Howard\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAgainst the Grain's narrative concentrates almost entirely on its principal character \u003c\/strong\u003eand is mostly a catalogue of the tastes and inner life of Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive aesthete and antihero who loathes 19th-century bourgeois society and tries to retreat into an ideal artistic world of his own creation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"There was only one living scion of this family which had once been so numerous that it had occupied all the territories of the Ile-de-France and La Brie. The Duc Jean was a slender, nervous young man of thirty, with hollow cheeks, cold, steel-blue eyes, a straight, thin nose and delicate hands.\" Thus we are introduced to the character of Des Esseintes in a novel that has been banned and censored for years, but still lives on as being one of the finest examples of the \"decadent\" literature written by fin-de-siecle (late nineteenth century) writers. Oscar Wilde himself called the novel \"the Breviary of Decadence.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.53 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51773705257248,"sku":"9781598189414","price":21.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/7e1257ce9bdfc0504cd3d19ed6dc2faa_0b9e9147-35aa-4043-bdfc-273a18bd6c72.webp?v=1780430921","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/against-the-grain-by-joris-karl-huysmans-fiction-classics-literary-action-adventure-romance-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}