The Horror of Life
Williams, Roger L.
| Publication Date | 1980 |
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| ISBN | 0297778838 |
| Publisher | Weidenfeld & Nicolson, |
| Binding | Hardback |
| Condition | Very good copy in good dust wrapper |
| SKU | 18134 |
| Notes | Dust wrapper is rubbed to edges with a short closed tear to top edge. Pale purple cloth is very clean and neat. |
Description
Hardback. 381pp. On the work of Charles Baudelaire, Jules de Goncourt, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, taking a medical rather than social view of their depressing and disgusted view of life, particularly stressing the effects of syphilis as well as the social and political background.
