Monsieur de Phocas - Jean Lorrain Vitezslav Nezval Alworth / ISBN 9780399581021 /

Alworth / ISBN 9780399581021 / Hardcover from Ten Speed Press

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An intriguing visual game for children aged 2-5 to find the simple shape of a shoe in Ungerer's charming and retro illustration

mischievous giants

Schuré navigated many of the seminal movements of his time

Monsieur de Phocas - Jean Lorrain Vitezslav Nezval Alworth / ISBN 9780399581021 /Monsieur de Phocas by Jean Lorrain, translated by Francis Amery ISBN 9781912868094 270 page paperback from Dedalus European Classics *** Monsieur de Phocas ranks with A Rebours as the summation of the French Decadent Movement. Modeled on The Portrait of Dorian Gray, it drips with evil and certainly would have unpublishable in fin de siecle England. "With Ethel's friends, grotesque, aging decadents, Phocas for the first time tastes opium. He