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HARDBACK ONLY: The Torture Garden by Octave Mirbeau
This gorgeous hardback, limited edition (only 100 printed) book was once described as the “most sickening work of art of the nineteenth century!” Long out of print, Octave Mirbeau’s macabre classic (1899) features a corrupt Frenchman and an insatiably cruel Englishwoman…
who meet and then frequent a fantastic 19th century Chinese garden where torture is practiced as an art form. The fascinating, horrific narrative slithers deep into the human spirit, uncovering murderous proclivities and demented desires. Lavish, loving detail of description. Introduction, biography and bibliography. ONLY 100 PRINTED - RARE. NOT IN STORES.
Excerpt:
* "Table of Contents" * "Introduction" * "Murder" * "Robbery and Business" * "Pearls" * "Tortures" * "The Cadaver"
Reviews:
"...sadistic spectacle as apocalyptic celebration of human potential...A work as chilling as it is seductive." -- The Daily Californian
"Here is a novel that is hot with the fever of ecstatic, prohibited joys, as cruel as a thumbscrew and as luxuriant as an Oriental tapestry. This exotic story of Clara and her insatiable desire for the perverse and the forbidden has been hailed by the critics." -- Charles Hanson Towne
"...daydreams in which sexual images are mixed nightmarishly with images of horror." -- Edmund Wilson
"Mirbeau, massing his words in viscous passages, creates a literary equivalent to the moist greasy substance of the victim's muscle, fat and bone." -- Paper
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