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Excerpt from Against the Grain It was obvious that the decadence of this family had followed an unvarying course. The effemination of the males had continued with a quickened tempo. As if to conclude the work of long years, the Des Esseintes had intermarried for two centuries, using up, in such consanguineous unions, such strength as remained. There was only one living scion of this fam ily which had once been so numerous that it had occupied all the territories of the Ile-de France and La Brie. The Duc Jean was a slender, nervous young man Of thirty, with hollow Cheeks, cold, steel - blue eyes, a straight, thin nose and delicate hands. By a singular, atavistic reversion, the last descendant resembled the old grandsire, from whom he had inherited the pointed, remark ably fair beard and an ambiguous expression, at once weary and cunning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Prose: non-fiction Literary essays

• Full title: Against the Grain (Classic Reprint)
• Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 338
• EAN: 9781333424091
• ISBN: 1333424094
• ID: 14198032
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 455 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. August 2016

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