Of Kings and Things - (Strange Attractor Press) by Eric Stanislaus Stenbock (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>An introduction to the Decadent writer Stanislaus Eric Stenbock for the general reader, offering morbid stories, suicidal poems, and an autobiographical essay.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>An introduction to the Decadent writer Stanislaus Eric Stenbock for the general reader, offering morbid stories, suicidal poems, and an autobiographical essay.</b><p>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 greatest exemplar of the Decadent movement of the late nineteenth century.</p><p>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.</p><p>Stenbock was a homosexual convert to Roman Catholicism and owner of a serpent, a toad, and a dachshund called 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 <i>recherché</i> literature.</p><p><i>Of Kings and Things </i>is the first introduction to Stenbock's writing for the general reader, offering fifteen stories, eight poems and one autobiographical essay by this complex figure.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Of Kings and Things</i> is a rare gem of a book [...] produced with exceptional care.--<i>Times Literary Supplement</i>--<br>
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