Decadence & the Fin-de-Siècle

1.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray 4.13 avg rating — 1,783,277 ratings
2.
Against Nature
Against Nature 3.80 avg rating — 14,813 ratings
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Les Fleurs du Mal
Les Fleurs du Mal 4.20 avg rating — 77,715 ratings
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The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby 3.93 avg rating — 5,732,280 ratings
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Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness 3.43 avg rating — 545,809 ratings
6.
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings 4.19 avg rating — 243,678 ratings
7.
Brideshead Revisited
Brideshead Revisited really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 123,573 ratings
8.
Selected Stories of Morley Roberts
Selected Stories of Morley Roberts 4.86 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Man Without Qualities
The Man Without Qualities 4.19 avg rating — 7,191 ratings
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Dream Story
Dream Story 3.76 avg rating — 19,888 ratings
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Paris Spleen
Paris Spleen 4.24 avg rating — 15,180 ratings
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A Doll's House
A Doll's House 3.77 avg rating — 159,049 ratings
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Bel-Ami
Bel-Ami 3.86 avg rating — 47,125 ratings
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Fetish Transcendence
Fetish Transcendence 4.10 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Venus in Furs
Venus in Furs 3.63 avg rating — 16,027 ratings
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Salomé
Salomé 3.71 avg rating — 20,201 ratings
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Là-Bas
Là-Bas 3.96 avg rating — 4,582 ratings
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Nana
Nana 3.84 avg rating — 27,059 ratings
19.
A Season in Hell & Illuminations
A Season in Hell & Illuminations 4.27 avg rating — 3,627 ratings
20.
The Portrait of a Lady
The Portrait of a Lady 3.80 avg rating — 84,063 ratings
21.
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest 4.17 avg rating — 397,735 ratings
22.
Klimt
Klimt 4.17 avg rating — 25,287 ratings
23.
This Side of Paradise
This Side of Paradise 3.64 avg rating — 78,643 ratings
24.
The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth 3.97 avg rating — 103,548 ratings
25.
Bruges-la-Morte
Bruges-la-Morte 3.69 avg rating — 2,905 ratings
26.
A Woman's Life
A Woman's Life 3.86 avg rating — 15,200 ratings
27.
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
by: Ross King
3.85 avg rating — 14,510 ratings
28.
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales 4.17 avg rating — 74,601 ratings
29.
The Gambler
The Gambler 3.91 avg rating — 112,187 ratings
30.
Monsieur Vénus
Monsieur Vénus
by: Rachilde
3.81 avg rating — 938 ratings
31.
Schiele
Schiele 4.27 avg rating — 5,485 ratings
32.
The Flowers of Evil & Artificial Paradise
The Flowers of Evil & Artificial Paradise 4.43 avg rating — 109 ratings
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The Ambassadors
The Ambassadors 3.63 avg rating — 12,858 ratings
34.
Selected Short Stories
Selected Short Stories 4.14 avg rating — 3,325 ratings
35.
L'Assommoir
L'Assommoir 4.08 avg rating — 18,743 ratings
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The Bostonians
The Bostonians 3.58 avg rating — 7,843 ratings
37.
Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siècle Culture
Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siècle Culture 4.30 avg rating — 587 ratings
38.
Dreamers of Decadence
Dreamers of Decadence 4.39 avg rating — 140 ratings
39.
Les Diaboliques
Les Diaboliques 3.74 avg rating — 1,940 ratings
40.
Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture
Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture 4.09 avg rating — 1,578 ratings
41.
Oscar Wilde's Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the Most Outrageous Trial of the Century
Oscar Wilde's Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the Most Outrageous Trial of the Century 3.40 avg rating — 136 ratings
42.
Tales of Hoffmann
Tales of Hoffmann 4.02 avg rating — 2,286 ratings
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The Belly of Paris (Les Rougon-Macquart, #3)
The Belly of Paris (Les Rougon-Macquart, #3) 3.93 avg rating — 7,011 ratings
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Le Jardin des supplices
Le Jardin des supplices 3.74 avg rating — 2,794 ratings
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The Book of Masks: An Anthology of French Symbolist & Decadent Writing (Atlas Arkhive, #2)
The Book of Masks: An Anthology of French Symbolist & Decadent Writing (Atlas Arkhive, #2) 4.14 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Contes cruels
Contes cruels 3.63 avg rating — 748 ratings
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The Dreyfus Affair: "J'Accuse" and Other Writings
The Dreyfus Affair: "J'Accuse" and Other Writings 4.10 avg rating — 305 ratings
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War 1890-1914
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War 1890-1914 4.12 avg rating — 9,482 ratings
49.
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh 4.09 avg rating — 107,635 ratings
50.
The Fin de Siècle: A Reader in Cultural History, c. 1880-1900
The Fin de Siècle: A Reader in Cultural History, c. 1880-1900 4.03 avg rating — 94 ratings
51.
Rachilde: Decadence, Gender and the Woman Writer
Rachilde: Decadence, Gender and the Woman Writer 4.75 avg rating — 16 ratings
52.
The Moon and Sixpence
The Moon and Sixpence 4.13 avg rating — 26,377 ratings
53.
Victorian London: The Tale of a City 1840-1870
Victorian London: The Tale of a City 1840-1870 4.03 avg rating — 1,432 ratings
54.
The Plays of Oscar Wilde
The Plays of Oscar Wilde 4.34 avg rating — 2,245 ratings
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The Shape of Fear: Horror and the Fin de Siecle Culture of Decadence
The Shape of Fear: Horror and the Fin de Siecle Culture of Decadence 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings
56.
Faces of modernity: Avant-garde, decadence, kitsch
Faces of modernity: Avant-garde, decadence, kitsch 4.22 avg rating — 18 ratings
57.
The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle
The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle 3.85 avg rating — 54 ratings
58.
Les Chants de Maldoror
Les Chants de Maldoror 4.14 avg rating — 4,632 ratings
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The Sorrows of Satan; or, The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire
The Sorrows of Satan; or, The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire 3.97 avg rating — 2,395 ratings
60.
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories 3.84 avg rating — 7,130 ratings
61.
The Rainbow
The Rainbow 3.70 avg rating — 21,411 ratings
62.
My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 45,726 ratings
63.
Eminent Victorians
Eminent Victorians 3.75 avg rating — 2,586 ratings
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Gauguin
Gauguin 3.65 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Poèmes saturniens
Poèmes saturniens 4.05 avg rating — 3,502 ratings
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The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination 4.21 avg rating — 4,063 ratings
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Decadence and the Making of Modernism
Decadence and the Making of Modernism 3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Europeans
The Europeans 3.59 avg rating — 5,307 ratings
69.
Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society
Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society 4.16 avg rating — 190 ratings
70.
The Romantic Agony
The Romantic Agony 4.15 avg rating — 289 ratings
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Monsieur de Phocas
Monsieur de Phocas 4.14 avg rating — 178 ratings
72.
The Great Shadow
The Great Shadow 4.06 avg rating — 79 ratings
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The Emerald Princess and Other Decadent Fantasies
The Emerald Princess and Other Decadent Fantasies 3.94 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Three Impostors
The Three Impostors 3.85 avg rating — 1,389 ratings
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The Dedalus Book of Decadence: Moral Ruins
The Dedalus Book of Decadence: Moral Ruins 4.17 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Princesses d'ivoire et d'ivresse
Princesses d'ivoire et d'ivresse 4.17 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Sexuality and Masquerade
Sexuality and Masquerade 3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings
78.
Pious Nietzsche: Decadence and Dionysian Faith
Pious Nietzsche: Decadence and Dionysian Faith 3.96 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Poems and Ballads & Atalanta in Calydon
Poems and Ballads & Atalanta in Calydon 4.22 avg rating — 188 ratings
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The Odd Women
The Odd Women 3.84 avg rating — 5,615 ratings
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Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria 3.79 avg rating — 2,088 ratings
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The New Woman in Fiction and Fact: Fin-de-Siècle Feminisms
The New Woman in Fiction and Fact: Fin-de-Siècle Feminisms 3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Desiring the Dead
Desiring the Dead 4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Fin De Siecle/Fin Du Globe: Fears and Fantasies of the Late Nineteenth Century
Fin De Siecle/Fin Du Globe: Fears and Fantasies of the Late Nineteenth Century 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
85.
Passionate Discontent: Creativity, Gender, and French Symbolist Art
Passionate Discontent: Creativity, Gender, and French Symbolist Art 4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Eiffel's Tower and the World's Fair: Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count
Eiffel's Tower and the World's Fair: Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count 3.78 avg rating — 3,318 ratings
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The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence: The Black Feast
The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence: The Black Feast 4.34 avg rating — 29 ratings
88.
Hashish
Hashish 3.71 avg rating — 119 ratings
89.
In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement
In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings
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La Marquise de Sade
La Marquise de Sade
by: Rachilde
3.79 avg rating — 116 ratings
91.
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry 3.93 avg rating — 1,703 ratings
92.
One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances
One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances 3.66 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Pleasures Taken: Performances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs
Pleasures Taken: Performances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs 4.05 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Prince of Aesthetes: Count Robert de Montesquiou, 1855–1921
Prince of Aesthetes: Count Robert de Montesquiou, 1855–1921 3.96 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Decadent Imagination: 1880-1900
The Decadent Imagination: 1880-1900 4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings
95.
The Temptation of Saint Anthony
The Temptation of Saint Anthony 3.82 avg rating — 3,264 ratings
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The Juggler
The Juggler
by: Rachilde
3.75 avg rating — 173 ratings
98.
The Book of Masks
The Book of Masks 3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings
98.
The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly (#1)
The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly (#1) 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Mine-Haha, or On the Bodily Education of Young Girls
Mine-Haha, or On the Bodily Education of Young Girls 3.44 avg rating — 385 ratings
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