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100 1 _aMirbeau, Octave,
_d1848-1917
245 1 3 _aLe jardin des supplices
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2018
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Torture_Garden Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Jardin_des_supplices
500 _aRelease date is 2018-08-26
520 _a"Le jardin des supplices" by Octave Mirbeau is a novel published in 1899. This provocative work follows a French political operative sent on a dubious mission to Ceylon, where he encounters the enigmatic Clara, an English woman who guides him through a Chinese torture garden. Through disturbing descriptions and dark humor, the novel explores violence, colonialism, and what Mirbeau calls the universal "law of murder" that underlies all societies. Its deliberately ambiguous tone challenges readers to question civilization, morality, and the boundaries between beauty and horror. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aTorture -- Fiction
653 _aFrench fiction -- 19th century
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57775
999 _c98604
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