Joris: 202 books

Book cover of Crissis Tagebücher 04: Die Göttin ohne Gesicht
by Aurélie Neyret, Joris Chamblain
Language: German
Release Date: February 16, 2017

Crissi trägt unverarbeitete Trauer mit sich rum, die sich langsam in Wut verwandelt. Sie weiß nicht, wie sie damit umgehen soll und hofft, dass ein Urlaub mit ihrer Mutter hilft. Sie haben eine Rätseltour durch ein altes Herrenhaus gebucht! Genau das Richtige, um abzuschalten und ein Rätsel über die Frau ohne Gesicht zu lösen … oder?
Book cover of Crissis Tagebücher 01: Der versteinerte Zoo
by Aurélie Neyret, Joris Chamblain
Language: German
Release Date: August 24, 2015

Die kleine Crissi ist zehn Jahre alt und lebt in einem verträumten Städtchen. Mit ihren Freunden Line und Erica möchte sie unbedingt ihr Baumhaus fertigstellen, als sie plötzlich einen gruseligen, alten Mann mit Farbeimern aus dem Wald kommen sieht. Die drei Mädchen können sich keinen Reim darauf...
Book cover of Yakari - Tome 39 - Le jour du silence
by Derib, Joris Chamblain
Language: French
Release Date: October 14, 2016

Quand Yakari se montre colérique et injuste vis-à-vis de Petit-Tonnerre, il va vite découvrir que ses actes ont des conséquences et que rien n'est jamais acquis dans la vie. Ni les dons précieux, ni l'amitié... Face à un grizzly qui ne semble pas dans son état normal, Yakari devra faire preuve...
Book cover of Against Nature
by Joris-Karl Huysmans, Patrick McGuinness
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003

The hero of this curious novel is des Esseintes, a neurasthenic aristocrat who has turned his back on the vulgarity of modern life and retreated to an isolated country villa. Here, accompanied only by a couple of silent servants, he pursues his obsessions with exotic flowers, rare gems, and complex...
Book cover of Parisian Sketches
by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010

No one, not even Toulouse-Lautrec, was so tireless a tracker of Paris�s genius loci as Huysmans. Like many of his radical contemporaries, he was obsessed by the idea of beauty within the ugliness of back-street Paris, by the thought that the distortions of depravity presented a truer picture...
Book cover of The Vatard Sisters
by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010

'A powerful and outstanding work." Gustave Flaubert �The Vatard Sisters brought Huysmans to the notice of the public and revealed him as a man who could paint word-pictures which put earlier practitioners like Gautier and Edmond de Goncourt in the shade...The novel is a story of two working-class...
Book cover of Croquis Parisiens

Croquis Parisiens

Recueil de poèmes

by Joris Karl Huysmans, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2015

Extrait : "Quand après avoir subi les cris de marchands de programmes et les invites de négociants s'offrant à vous cirer les bottes, l'on a franchi le comptoir où, parmi des Messieurs assis, un jeune homme debout, à moustaches rousses, porteur d'une jambe de bois et d'un ruban rouge, prend les...
Book cover of En ménage Annoté
by JORIS KARL HUYSMANS, GILBERT TEROL
Language: French
Release Date: August 20, 2015

Extrait : — Ah ! elles sont jolies les soirées de ton oncle ! Une vraie bousculade de salle à bagages ! Il n’y a que les gens qui graissent les cartes qui aient le droit de s’asseoir ! Et ils sont là, avec des têtes dont les cheveux...
Book cover of Sac au dos Annoté
by JORIS KARL HUYSMANS, GILBERT TEROL
Language: French
Release Date: August 20, 2015

Extrait : Aussitôt que j’eus achevé mes études, mes parents jugèrent utile de me faire comparoir devant une table habillée de drap vert et surmontée de bustes de vieux messieurs qui s’inquiétèrent de savoir si j’avais appris assez de langue morte pour être promu au grade de bachelier. L’épreuve...
Book cover of La-Bas: Down There
by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006

Regarded as a study in Satanism "La-Bas" by Huysmans presents the most detailed descriptions of the black magic and rituals. He regarded Satanism as the only logical consequence of the modernism taking roots in society. It is one man's obsession with a figure in history that practised and perpetrated vilest acts.
Book cover of Against The Grain
by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006

Delving deep into human psychology Huysmans explains the formation of a personality and how some childhood deprivations force Des Esseintes to abandon the world and create one of his own. Cited differently as a ghost story horror story and mystery the novel is also an expedition in psychology as well as emblem of 19th century decadence of literature.
Book cover of Sorcery In Poitou

Sorcery In Poitou

Two Satanic Essays: Gilles de Rais and Felicen Rops

by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010

The first notable literary advocate of the Satanist, alchemist and child-killer Gilles de Rais remains J-K Huysmans, famous for his novel A Rebours and its quintessential decadent, Des Esseintes. Huysmans' later novel La-Bas (1891), a virtual apology for Satanism, is threaded by a version of the de Rais...
Book cover of The Cathedral
by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Book cover of The Cathedral
by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010

After the Satanic debaucheries of Là-bas (1891) and the sensual battles of En Route (1895), comes the cloistered calm of The Cathedral (1898). In this long, reflective novel, Huysmans� alter-ego, Durtal, sets out to explore the mystic symbolism embodied in one of the greatest gothic edifices...
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