Download or read book The Philosophy of Disenchantment written by Edgar Saltus and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Anatomy of Negation written by Edgar Saltus and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Imperial Orgy written by Edgar Saltus and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pomps of Satan written by Edgar Saltus and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historia Amoris written by Edgar Saltus and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poppies and Mandragora written by Edgar Saltus and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lords of the Ghostland written by Edgar Saltus and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edgar Saltus written by Claire Sprague and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book And I d Do It Again written by Aimée Crocker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the world at her feet and Californian railroad fortunes in her purse, Aimée had a tale or two to tell. Here, she boldly delivers her hilarious memoirs of escaping headhunters in Borneo, avoiding poisoning in Hong Kong and outwitting murder in Shanghai. Not remotely cowered by her skirmishes with sin, shame or vice, Aimée celebrates her quintet of unfortunate husbands including a Russian prince almost forty years her junior and King Kalakaua of Hawaii, emboldened by her forcefulness to hold sway over the faint of heart. Aimée was a woman of means, not always a lady and never what you might call 'proper'. In this laugh-out-loud story of her life, she recounts her adventures with flair, invincibility and unapologetic gusto.
Download or read book Decadent Culture in the United States written by David Weir and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decadent Culture in the United States traces the development of the decadent movement in America from its beginnings in the 1890s to its brief revival in the 1920s. During the fin de siècle, many Americans felt the nation had entered a period of decline since the frontier had ended and the country's "manifest destiny" seemed to be fulfilled. Decadence—the cultural response to national decline and individual degeneracy so familiar in nineteenth-century Europe—was thus taken up by groups of artists and writers in major American cities such as New York, Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco. Noting that the capitalist, commercial context of America provided possibilities for the entrance of decadence into popular culture to a degree that simply did not occur in Europe, David Weir argues that American-style decadence was driven by a dual impulse: away from popular culture for ideological reasons, yet toward popular culture for economic reasons. By going against the grain of dominant social and cultural trends, American writers produced a native variant of Continental Decadence that eventually dissipated "upward" into the rising leisure class and "downward" into popular, commercial culture.
Download or read book Cosmic Pessimism written by Eugene Thacker and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We’re doomed.” So begins the work of the philosopher whose unabashed and aphoristic indictments of the human condition have been cropping up recently in popular culture. Today we find ourselves in an increasingly inhospitable world that is, at the same time, starkly indifferent to our species-specific hopes, desires, and disappointments. In the Anthropocene, pessimism is felt everywhere but rarely given its proper place. Though pessimism may be, as Eugene Thacker says, the lowest form of philosophy, it may also contain an enigma central to understanding the horizon of the human. Written in a series of fragments, aphorisms, and prose poems, Thacker’s Cosmic Pessimism explores the varieties of pessimism and its often-conflicted relation to philosophy. “Crying, laughing, sleeping—what other responses are adequate to a life that is so indifferent?”
Download or read book Landscapes of Decadence written by Alex Murray and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenges posed by Decadence to Victorian moral conventions - particularly sexual - have been well documented, but this book makes the case for understanding Decadence as a response to the ways in which place was accorded moral value in the period. The book uses landscape as a key trope for exploring Decadent writing's approach to location and identity. Drawing on a wide range of fin-de-siècle literature organised around a series of locations from Naples to New York, Murray argues that Decadent writers developed a form of landscape and place-based writing using a series of stylistic features to challenge the increasing homogenisation of both place and literary culture. Decadence and the literature of the fin de siècle are re-framed as a politically-engaged form of landscape writing. This is an ambitious and richly researched study.
Download or read book The Story Without a Name written by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly and published by Tien & Van Os. This book was released on 2023-08-27 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a desolate village at the foot of the Cévennes, a Capuchin preacher stays with a mother-and-daughter household. Despite his eloquence, madame de Ferjol and her daughter Lasthénie find him imposing, and they become increasingly uneasy around him. On the day before Easter, the Ladies de Ferjol learn that their Capuchin guest has disappeared without a word. Shortly after, Lasthénie falls mysteriously ill, and become increasingly pale and melancholy. What follows is a descent into suspicion, religious fanatism and despair, ultimately resulting in destructive consequences.
Download or read book Mr Incoul s Misadventure written by Edgar Saltus and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2024-04-06T17:15:16Z with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the sudden, untimely death of his wife, the wealthy Mr. Incoul proposes to Miss Maida Barhyte: “Marry me, and you will never want for anything again.” Young Maida, under pressure from her mother and facing a future as a housemaid, reluctantly agrees, on the condition that they live as though unmarried—as brother and sister would—until she feels they’ve each come into their own. They wed on these terms and subsequently embark on a honeymoon across Europe. But just as Maida begins to adjust to this unconventional arrangement, the unexpected occurs: at a bullfight in Spain, a former lover resurfaces, vying for her attention once more. Mr. Incoul remains blissfully unaware of this development. Or does he? In Mr. Incoul’s Misadventure, his first published work of fiction, Edgar Saltus eruditely applies the biting pessimism that he previously studied in his philosophical works The Philosophy of Disenchantment and The Anatomy of Negation. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Download or read book The Merry Go Round written by Carl Van Vechten and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Merry-Go-Round" by Carl Van Vechten. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book The Paliser case written by Edgar Saltus and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Paliser case" by Edgar Saltus. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book A Short History of India and of the Frontier States of Afghanistan Nepal and Burma written by James Talboys Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
