Against Nature (A Rebours) Fiction_Gift_Guide mix in James Ellroy’s gritty

mix in James Ellroy’s gritty realism and Jonathan Swift’s unflinching satire and

Republicans regained power in Congress but spent that time fighting among themselves

and seemingly interminable conflict in South Asia

they revisited these mostly silly

Against Nature (A Rebours) Fiction_Gift_Guide mix in James Ellroy’s grittyThe infamous inspiration for the novel which slowly corrupts Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray is translated by Robert Baldick with an introduction by Patrick McGuinness in Penguin Classics. A wildly original fin de sicle novel, Against Nature contains only one character. Des Esseintes is a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where her indulges his taste for luxury and excess. Veering between nervous excitability and debilitating