
Give the Gift of Choice!
Too many options? Treat your friends and family to their favourite stores with a Bayshore Shopping Centre gift card, redeemable at participating retailers throughout the centre. Click below to purchase yours today!Purchase HereHome
Isis
Coles
Loading Inventory...
Isis in Ottawa, ON
By None
Current price: $22.00


By None
Isis in Ottawa, ON
Current price: $22.00
Loading Inventory...
Size: Paperback
*Product information may vary - to confirm product availability, pricing, shipping and return information please contact Coles
Here, presented in English in a long-belated translation by Brian Stableford, is Isis , the first novel of the acclaimed author of Contes cruels , Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. Deserving to be reckoned as one of the foundation-stones of Decadent prose fiction, redolent with echoes of Byron and Poe, reconfigured in the Baudelairean manner, and flamboyant with Gautieresque elements, this book is a tour de force of extravagant implication and esthetic dexterity: a work of peculiar genius. In its vaulting ambitions, its quirky mannerisms, its philosophical posturing and its lush descriptions, Isis is certainly a tale given to excess, but that excess is the essence of the endeavor, the wand of its enchantment.
Here, presented in English in a long-belated translation by Brian Stableford, is Isis , the first novel of the acclaimed author of Contes cruels , Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. Deserving to be reckoned as one of the foundation-stones of Decadent prose fiction, redolent with echoes of Byron and Poe, reconfigured in the Baudelairean manner, and flamboyant with Gautieresque elements, this book is a tour de force of extravagant implication and esthetic dexterity: a work of peculiar genius. In its vaulting ambitions, its quirky mannerisms, its philosophical posturing and its lush descriptions, Isis is certainly a tale given to excess, but that excess is the essence of the endeavor, the wand of its enchantment.

















