{"product_id":"of-kings-and-things-strange-tales-and-decadent-poems-by-count-eric-stanislaus-stenbock-9781907222573","title":"Of Kings and Things: Strange Tales and Decadent Poems by Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Eric Stanislaus Stenbock\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: The MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Strange Attractor Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAn introduction to the Decadent writer Stanislaus Eric Stenbock for the general reader, offering morbid stories, suicidal poems, and an autobiographical essay.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDescribed 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA friend of Aubrey Beardsley, patron of the extraordinary pre-Raphaelite artist Simeon Solomon, and contemporary of Oscar Wilde, Stenbock died at the age of thirty-six as a result of his addiction to opium and his alcoholism, having published just three slim volumes of suicidal poetry and one collection of morbid short stories.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStenbock was a homosexual convert to Roman Catholicism and owner of a serpent, a toad, and a dachshund called Trixie. It was said that toward the end of his life he was accompanied everywhere by a life-size wooden doll that he believed to be his son. His poems and stories are replete with queer, supernatural, mystical, and Satanic themes; original editions of his books are highly sought by collectors of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003erecherché\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e literature.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOf Kings and Things \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis the first introduction to Stenbock's writing for the general reader, offering fifteen stories, eight poems and one autobiographical essay by this complex figure.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45268909293719,"sku":"9781907222573","price":1163.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781907222573.webp?v=1769236772","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/of-kings-and-things-strange-tales-and-decadent-poems-by-count-eric-stanislaus-stenbock-9781907222573","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}