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An introduction to the Decadent writer Stanislaus Eric Stenbock for the general reader, offering morbid stories, suicidal poems, and an autobiographical essay.Described by W. B. Yeats as a scholar, connoisseur, drunkard, poet, pervert, most charming of men, Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock (1860-1895) is surely the greatestexemplar of the Decadent movement of the late nineteenthcentury.A friend of Aubrey Beardsley, patron of the extraordinary pre-Raphaelite artist Simeon Solomon, and contemporary of Oscar Wilde, Stenbock died at the age of thirty-six as a result of his addiction to opium and his alcoholism, having published just three slim volumes of suicidal poetry and one collection of morbid short stories.Stenbock was a homosexual convert to Roman Catholicism and owner of a serpent, a toad, and adachshundcalled Trixie. It was said that toward the end of his life he was accompanied everywhere by a life-size wooden doll that he believed to be his son. His poems and stories are replete with queer, supernatural, mystical, and Satanic themes; original editions of his books are highly sought by collectors of recherche literature.Of Kings and Thingsis the first introduction to Stenbock's writing for the general reader, offering fifteen stories, eight poems and one autobiographical essay by this complex figure.Product Identifiers
PublisherStrange Engineering Attractor Press
ISBN-139781907222573
eBay Product ID (ePID)239305802
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Book TitleOf Kings and Things: Strange Tales and Decadent Poems by Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock
AuthorEric Stanislaus Stenbock
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicShort Stories, Poetry, Books
Publication Year2018
Number of Pages360 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height210mm
Item Width152mm
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Title_AuthorEric Stanislaus Stenbock
Series TitleStrange Attractor Press
EditorDavid Tibet
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
