Mirbeau, OctaveBiblio.com
Torture Garden
194826597New York: The Citadel Press. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1948. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. spine moderately turned slight bumping and a bit of wear to most corners; jacket shows a little wear along top edge and at spine extremities light tanning to rear panel. "A startling novel of passion and horror" originally published in France in 1898 as "Le Jardin des Supplices." Supposedly this book was the inspiration in some unspecified fashion for Luis Bunuel' s 1967 film BELLE DE JOUR although the credits proper to the film attribute a novel by Joseph Kessel as source material. A new translation published in paperback in 1995 featured a photo of Catherine Deneuve in the film; a French film adaptation using the original title appeared in 1976. Oscar Wilde is said to have described the book as "revolting -- a sort of grey adder." The book had previously been published in the U.S. in 1931 by Claude Kendall; this edition features a Foreword by James Gibbons Huneker itself actually a reprint from his 1920 book "Bedouins." . The Citadel Press hardcover books
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