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The Story of Venus and Tannhäuser
Aubrey Beardsley
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Learning without appreciation is a thing of nought, but I know not which is greatest in you, your love of the arts or your knowledge of 'em. What wonder, then, that I am studious to please you, and desirous of your protection? How deeply thankful I am for your past affections, you know well, your great kindness and liberality having far outgone my slight merits fend small accomplishment that seemed scarce to warrant any favour. Alas! 'tis a slight offering I make you now, but, if after . . . Read More
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Notes: 80 pages written by Aubrey Beardsley before his death in 1898 developed a cult following. Story expanded and finished by John Glassco, published as "Under the Hill" with dual byline in 1959.
Oh, the fun to be had in the library if one knows where to look.
Beardsley writes with an ecstatic delir
A Puerile Prostitution of Rococo Prose.
The art-prodigy and dilettante author here chanced upon is a young and bawdy prose-bard whose unfinished fable is carefully wrought with artful sentences not wanting in mellifluous finishes.
Rounding off a lush and dainty hairdo a stylist with tiny silver tongs
In case one was ever curious what the literary equivalent to one of Aubrey Beardsley's iconic Art Nouveau illustrations would be, Beardsley himself provided the answer with the manuscript fragment The Story of Venus and Tannhäuser, first published in heavily censored form as Under the Hill. Left unf
I was browsing the bookshelves in an Antique shop when I came across this gem. The cover intrigued me, and I am usually the type of person to walk away from erotica novels, but this one stuck out to me. When I got home I sat down and started to read the book, and I couldn't put it back down. I haven
It's ... certainly an experience to read, I'll give it that.
There's a lot of interesting things to be said about this as a self-reflexive satire of decadence (and I'm about to do a presentation over it so I'll probably read it again) but the reading experience in itself (which is what's hovering aro
“Ho giocato a piquet con la Regina dell’Amore”
«La storia di Venere e Tannhäuser, dove si dà fedele resoconto del modo come è retto lo Stato di madame Venere, dea e meretrice, sotto il famoso Hörselberg, altresì contenente le avventure di Tannhäuser in detto luogo, il suo pentimento, il suo pelle
Aubrey Beardsley’s novel Under the Hill (also known as The Story of Venus And Tannhauser) remained unfinished at his death, and certainly had not the slightest chance of being published at that time even had he completed it. It’s reminiscent of Huysman’s A Rebours in its heady mingling of many and v