id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 12341 Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Against the Grain .txt text/plain 59940 2442 63 Des Esseintes as catarrhal, crazy, old men repeating inanities and calling the Great Age, hardly stimulated Des Esseintes. Des Esseintes' library did not contain many works of the centuries Like the old king, Des Esseintes remained dumbfounded, overwhelmed and Des Esseintes thought that never before had a water color attained "All is syphilis," thought Des Esseintes, his eye riveted upon the natural odor of the flowers, working over his subject like a jeweler revealed to Des Esseintes who could now read this language, as During the days following his return, Des Esseintes contemplated his That day, Des Esseintes took this incomparable book from his shelves Among such works, Des Esseintes had had the curiosity to read those of It was not at all among the works of women that Des Esseintes, whose Certain ideas associated themselves in the mind of Des Esseintes, Certainly, Des Esseintes still loved the works of these two poets, as ./cache/12341.txt ./txt/12341.txt