Download or read book French Decadent Tales written by Stephen Romer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including well-known writers such as Maupassant, Lorrain, Mirbeau, and Villiers as well as lesser known figures such as Léon Bloy, Jean Richepin, and the Belgian Georges Rodenbach, these newly translated stories fascinate for their amorality, peverseness, cruelty, and imaginative fantasy.