21 Days of a Neurasthenic Markus Werner and circus sideshow masquerading as

and circus sideshow masquerading as a collection of short stories

are the pleasures of middle-class life enough to keep one from joining the legions of the damned

The long-awaited final work and magnum opus of one of the United States's greatest authors

"You keep reading this hypnotic novel the way a sleeping person wants to keep dreaming

Autoportrait is a physical

21 Days of a Neurasthenic Markus Werner and circus sideshow masquerading asOctave Mirbeau, author of The Torture Garden and Diary of a Chambermaid, wrote this scathing novel on the cusp of the twentieth century. Driven mad by modern life, Georges Vasseur leaves for a rest cure, where he encounters corrupt politicians, amnesiac coquettes, cheerfully sadistic killers, imperialist generals, and quack psychiatrists. Hypocrites are eternal, and not much has changed since Mirbeau wrote this acid portrait of his era. Octave