Of Kings and Things: Strange Tales and Decadent Poems by Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock

by Count Stenbock

An introduction to the Decadent writer Stanislaus Eric Stenbock for the general reader, offering morbid stories, suicidal poems, and an autobiographical essay.

Described by W. B. Yeats as a "scholar, connoisseur, drunkard, poet, pervert, most charming of men," Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock (1860-1895) is surely the greatest exemplar of the Decadent movement of the late nineteenth century.

A friend of Aubrey Beardsley, patron...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 190722257X
• ISBN13: 9781907222573
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher