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Decadent Books
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,969,323 ratings — published 1890
Against Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.79 — 15,733 ratings — published 1884
Là-Bas (Down There)
by (shelved 15 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,927 ratings — published 1891
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.55 — 153 ratings — published
The Torture Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,930 ratings — published 1899
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.46 — 100,259 ratings — published 1959
Les Fleurs du Mal (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.19 — 83,613 ratings — published 1857
Paris Spleen (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.23 — 15,843 ratings — published 1857
French Decadent Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.96 — 218 ratings — published 2013
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.06 — 386,401 ratings — published 1971
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.84 — 73,115 ratings — published 1953
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.87 — 970,506 ratings — published 1955
Monsieur Vénus (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,099 ratings — published 1884
The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.44 — 103 ratings — published 1998
The King in Yellow (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.51 — 31,069 ratings — published 1895
The Great God Pan (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.66 — 17,578 ratings — published 1890
The Dedalus Book of Decadence: Moral Ruins (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.15 — 71 ratings — published 1990
Salomé (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.71 — 21,703 ratings — published 1891
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.04 — 577,318 ratings — published 1985
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.80 — 376,967 ratings — published 1991
Les Liaisons dangereuses (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.05 — 60,458 ratings — published 1782
Bruges-La-Morte (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,333 ratings — published 1892
Maldoror and the Complete Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,015 ratings — published 1869
In the Miso Soup (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.61 — 48,864 ratings — published 1997
Hadrian the Seventh (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.45 — 602 ratings — published 1904
Monsieur de Phocas (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.15 — 190 ratings — published 1901
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.02 — 664,911 ratings — published 1976
The Cathedral (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.65 — 248 ratings — published 1898
The Hill of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,428 ratings — published 1907
The Soul-Drinker and Other Decadent Fantasies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.21 — 42 ratings — published 2016
Imaginary Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,306 ratings — published 1896
Les Diaboliques (Pocket Book)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,101 ratings — published 1874
Becalmed (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.84 — 308 ratings — published 1886
Nightmares of an Ether Drinker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.95 — 239 ratings — published 1895
A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.32 — 9,879 ratings — published 1872
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,099,115 ratings — published 1992
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,085,344 ratings — published 1925
The Dedalus Book of German Decadence: Voices of the Abyss (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.13 — 47 ratings — published 1994
The Dedalus Book of Russian Decadence: Perversity, Despair and Collapse (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.99 — 72 ratings — published 2007
The King in Yellow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.78 — 3,204 ratings — published
Aphrodite: Moeurs antiques (Pocket Book)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.73 — 536 ratings — published 1896
The Atrocity Exhibition (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.76 — 7,422 ratings — published 1969
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.61 — 457,014 ratings — published 1957
Complete Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,554 ratings — published 1870
Neo-Decadence Evangelion (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.79 — 48 ratings — published 2023
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.85 — 307,574 ratings — published 1891
Nil-Pray (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.45 — 11 ratings — published 2017
Collected Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.02 — 58 ratings — published 1902
Drowning in Beauty: The Neo-Decadent Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.72 — 81 ratings — published 2018
“Adornment, exoticism, affectation are all willed decadent strategies meant to pervert the texts they made. Decadent texts often live in their descriptive excursions, in their evocation of dreams, mysterious places and states of mind, in their excess of words, not events. The surface of the texts, the sound of the words, point to themselves as manufactured, as illusion. The decadents attempted to create texts that announced themselves as artifice.”
― The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France
― The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France
“After two years' absence she finally returned to chilly Europe, a trifle weary, a trifle sad, disgusted by our banal entertainments, our shrunken landscapes, our impoverished lovemaking. Her soul had remained over there, among the gigantic, poisonous flowers. She missed the mystery of old temples and the ardor of a sky blazing with fever, sensuality and death. The better to relive all these magnificent, raging memories, she became a recluse, spending entire days lying about on tiger skins, playing with those pretty Nepalese knives 'which dissipate one's dreams'.”
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