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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,023,856 ratings — published 1890
Against Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.78 — 16,016 ratings — published 1884
Là-Bas (Down There)
by (shelved 16 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,017 ratings — published 1891
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.52 — 153 ratings — published
The Torture Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,986 ratings — published 1899
Les Fleurs du Mal (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.19 — 84,138 ratings — published 1857
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.46 — 101,168 ratings — published 1959
Paris Spleen (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.22 — 16,224 ratings — published 1857
French Decadent Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.96 — 219 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 — 390,257 ratings — published 1971
Monsieur Vénus (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,131 ratings — published 1884
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.84 — 74,051 ratings — published 1953
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.87 — 984,295 ratings — published 1955
The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.42 — 104 ratings — published 1998
The King in Yellow (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.51 — 33,983 ratings — published 1895
The Great God Pan (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.66 — 18,121 ratings — published 1890
Monsieur de Phocas (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.15 — 197 ratings — published 1901
The Dedalus Book of Decadence: Moral Ruins (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.15 — 72 ratings — published 1990
Salomé (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.71 — 22,063 ratings — published 1891
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.04 — 590,838 ratings — published 1985
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.80 — 384,969 ratings — published 1991
Les Liaisons dangereuses (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.05 — 61,316 ratings — published 1782
Bruges-La-Morte (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,424 ratings — published 1892
Complete Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,653 ratings — published 1870
Maldoror and the Complete Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,034 ratings — published 1869
In the Miso Soup (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.61 — 51,057 ratings — published 1997
Hadrian the Seventh (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.45 — 612 ratings — published 1904
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.02 — 674,700 ratings — published 1976
The Cathedral (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.65 — 255 ratings — published 1898
The Hill of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,461 ratings — published 1907
Les Chants de Maldoror (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,034 ratings — published 1869
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 3.96 — 1,319 ratings — published 1896
Les Diaboliques (Pocket Book)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,158 ratings — published 1874
Becalmed (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.85 — 310 ratings — published 1886
Nightmares of an Ether Drinker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.95 — 244 ratings — published 1895
A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.32 — 10,041 ratings — published 1872
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,141,318 ratings — published 1992
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,172,348 ratings — published 1925
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,795 ratings — published 1873
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 3.79 — 3,706 ratings — published
Aphrodite: Moeurs antiques (Pocket Book)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.74 — 549 ratings — published 1896
The Happy Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.19 — 38,750 ratings — published 1888
The Atrocity Exhibition (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.75 — 7,556 ratings — published 1969
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.61 — 462,004 ratings — published 1957
The Greenwood Faun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.11 — 28 ratings — published 2017
Neo-Decadence Evangelion (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.79 — 48 ratings — published 2023
“The habit is now confirmed in me of spending the greater part of the day in sleep, while by night I wander far and wide through the city under the sedative influence of a tincture which has become necessary to my life”
― Xélucha and Others
― Xélucha and Others
“At issue for Peladan is the potency of the visual image: art's ability to construct images for viewing that can mobilize, concentrate and redirect instinctive responses. He brings out into the open the recognition underlying all decadent art; that is, the political function of the fascinated gaze.”
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