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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язык английский ● Формат EPUB ● страницы 288 ● ISBN 9780141906607 ● Переводчик Patrick McGuinness ● издатель Penguin Books Ltd ● опубликованный 2003 ● Загружаемые 6 раз ● валюта EUR ● Код товара 2268459 ● Защита от копирования Adobe DRM
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