Against the Grain

By Huysmans, Joris-Karl

Book Id: WPLBN0000232119
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 1.2 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Against the Grain
Author:	Huysmans, Joris-Karl
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection
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Publisher:	World Ebook Library


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Excerpt
NOTICE: TO judge by such family portraits as were preserved in the Chateau de Lourps, the race of the Floressas des Esseintes had been composed in olden days of stalwart veterans of the wars, grim knights with scowling visages. Imprisoned in the old-fashioned picture frames that seemed all too narrow to contain their broad shoulders, they glared out alarmingly at the spectator, who was equally impressed by the fixed stare in the eyes, the martial curl of the moustaches and the noble development of the chests encased in enormous steel cuirasses.

Table of Contents
· NOTICE. · Chapter I. · CHAPTER II. · CHAPTER III. · CHAPTER IV. · CHAPTER V. · CHAPTER VI. · CHAPTER VII. · CHAPTER VIII. · CHAPTER IX. · CHAPTER X. · CHAPTER XI. · CHAPTER XII. · CHAPTER XIII. · CHAPTER XIV. · CHAPTER XV. · CHAPTER XVI.