The Horror of Life

Williams, Roger L.
Publication Date 1980
ISBN 0297778838
Publisher Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
Binding Hardback
Condition Very good copy in good dust wrapper
SKU 18134
Notes Dust wrapper is rubbed to edges with a short closed tear to top edge. Pale purple cloth is very clean and neat.

Description

Hardback. 381pp. On the work of Charles Baudelaire, Jules de Goncourt, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, taking a medical rather than social view of their depressing and disgusted view of life, particularly stressing the effects of syphilis as well as the social and political background.
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