Pictorial cream boards. Limited to only 80 copies. The first time this has been translated into English. Minor bumps to the corners, otherwise very clean and unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 269 pages.

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Title: Fards and Poisons
Publisher: Snuggly Books
Publication Date: 2019
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1645250121
ISBN 13: 9781645250128
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition in English.
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket

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Fards and Poisons, originally published in 1903 and here made available for the first time in English in a translation by Brian Stableford, is one of the more eccentric works of the ever-eccentric Jean Lorrain. Defying the standard narrative expectations of short stories, the items in this volume might be seen as a series of gossipy character sketches, of actresses and mystics, gigolos and dowagers, of an entire rogues gallery of fin de si�cle types, which help explain how the author gained a reputation for corrupting public morals by literary means. Resembling fragments excised from a kind of endless series of conversations, the result is a strange literary collage that is perhaps the most quintessential of Lorrain's works: the slice of his life that pins his own literary persona most precisely, like a lepidopterist's long pin.

Included in the current volume, and for the first time republished since its initial appearance in Le Journal, is also the short story "Victim", for which Lorrain was disastrously sued, and convicted of, libel, the court imposing a massive punitive fine on the author and sentencing him to two months imprisonment, though the rulings were later overturned.

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