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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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T Torture Garden (Paperback)
Octave Mirbeau; Translated by Michael Richardson
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R308
R275
Discovery Miles 2 750
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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Sebastien Roch (Paperback)
Octave Mirbeau; Edited by Margaret Jull Costa; Translated by Nicoletta Simborowski
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R281
Discovery Miles 2 810
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Sebastien Roch is a brilliantly drawn portrait of a boy's
psychological, sexual and political coming of age in provincial
France against the background of the Belle Epoque. We follow
Sebastien as he enters a jesuit college as a natural, unspoiled
innocent child and develops into a corrupt, disillusioned, tortured
adolescent until his senseless death at the age of 21 on the
battlefield.
It is a powerful finale to Mirbeau's trilogy of "angry young
man" novels. The harrowing story of the perversion of innocence is
offset by Mirbeau's lyrical descriptions, capturing in words the
serene impressionism of Monet and the violent pornographic excesses
of Feliciens Rops.
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Abbe Jules (Paperback)
Octave Mirbeau; Volume editing by Adrian Murdoch; Translated by Nicoletta Simborowski
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R253
Discovery Miles 2 530
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Part two of Octave Mirbeau's autobiographical trilogy, ABBE JULES
tells of a priest's lifelong struggle with his passions. With the
realism of Zola and the decadent vision of D'Aurevilly, and
reflecting the impressionism of Monet, Pissaro and Van Gogh,
Mirbeau's novel presents us with a small boy's vision of provincial
France, where family, education and religion conspire to produce a
petit bourgeois tortured by repressed desire, violent fantasies,
and forbidden lusts.
Octave Mirbeau, author of the classic satires 'The Torture Garden'
and 'Diary of a Chambermaid' (the latter made into films by both
Jean Renoir and Luis Bunuel), wrote this scathing novel on the cusp
of the twentieth century. Driven mad by modern life, Georges
Vasseur heads off for a rest cure. At a spa town, though, he
encounters precisely those things he has been trying to escape:
corrupt politicians, amnesiac coquettes, cheerfully sadistic
killers, imperialist generals, and quack psychiatrists. Hypocrites
are eternal, and not much has changed since Mirbeau wrote this acid
portrait of his era."
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the
1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable,
high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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