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In France at the end of the nineteenth century, progress and material prosperity coincided with widespread alarm about disease and decay. "The Decadent Reader" is a collection of novels and stories from fin-de-siecle France that celebrate decline, aestheticize decay, and take pleasure in perversity.
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