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Books with Wildean Flavours
Les Liaisons Dangereuses (English Translation)Les Liaisons Dangereuses (English Translation) by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
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Wonderful and wicked - a must!
Lost Illusions (Classics)Lost Illusions (Classics) by Herbert Hunt
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The exploits of Lucien de Rubempré, the Man Who Wanted To Be Admired - a tale of lost innocence.
A Harlot High and Low: (Splendeurs et Miseres des Courtisanes) (Classics)A Harlot High and Low: (Splendeurs et Miseres des Courtisanes) (Classics) by Honore Balzac
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The saga of Rubempré continued - 'The greatest tragedy of my life was the death of Lucien de Rubempré' (Oscar Wilde)
Mademoiselle De MaupinMademoiselle De Maupin by Gautier
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Exquisite, precious tale about the love of beauty and of men and women - with the most exciting title character ever.
The Flowers of Evil (Oxford World's Classics)The Flowers of Evil (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Baudelaire
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Thrilling, enchanting, mesmerising, exquisite. You have not truly lived without having read this.
The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose (Penguin Classics)The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose (Penguin Classics) by Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde's essays are so beautiful and poisonous that they change your outlook on the world.
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (Oxford World's Classics)The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (Oxford World's Classics) by Walter Pater
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Oscar Wilde's Golden Book - perfect and poisonous.
Three Tales (Classics)Three Tales (Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
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Weird and wonderful.
Temptation of St Anthony (Modern Library)Temptation of St Anthony (Modern Library) by Gustave Flaubert
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Fascinating and mesmerising.
The Poetical Works (Wordsworth Poetry Library)The Poetical Works (Wordsworth Poetry Library) by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Go to bed with Swinburne and have strange dreams.
The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century (Oxford World's Classics)The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century (Oxford World's Classics) by Stendhal
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The story of another handsome young dandy who comes to a sticky end: Julien Sorel.
Symposium (Oxford World's Classics)Symposium (Oxford World's Classics) by Plato
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The essential Plato...
Poems and FragmentsPoems and Fragments by Sappho
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... and the essential Sappho.
EcstasyEcstasy by Louis Couperus
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A gem of Dutch decadence, written by a dandy and with a dandy in it.
Salome: AND Under the Hill (Creation Classics)Salome: AND Under the Hill (Creation Classics) by Aubrey Beardsley
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Finally: a quaint combination of a Symbolist masterpiece (Salomé) and a precious fragment of fin-de-siècle eroticism by Beardsley.