Williams, Roger Lawrence

The Horror of Life

Hardcover, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. First Edition; First Printing. Good in Good dust jacket.

Sound binding and hinges. Pages are off-white with occasional notations throughout. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed. DJ has light edge wear, overall shelf wear. ; Author theorizes that the negative outlooks on life displayed in the work of French writers Charles Baudelaire, Jules de Goncourt, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, and Alphonse Daudet stemmed from their syphilis. ; 9.25" tall; 381 pages.

ISBN: 0226899187           Item #3430049

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