{"product_id":"pope-tacynth-and-more-supernatural-tales","title":"Pope Tacynth and more Supernatural Tales","description":"\u003cp\u003e6b Vernon Lee. Wendy Des Moulins dust wrapper design. London: Peter Owen Limited, 1956. \u003cstrong\u003eFirst Edition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNotes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"n6owBd awi2gc\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-hveid=\"CAAICxAA\" data-complete=\"true\" data-processed=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", \"Helvetica Neue\", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 12px 0px 16px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);'\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"rQesXe MPyX\"\u003eVernon Lee \u003c\/span\u003ewas the brilliant literary pseudonym of \u003cspan class=\"rQesXe MPyX\"\u003eViolet Paget\u003c\/span\u003e, a fiercely intellectual British writer, aesthetic philosopher, and cultural critic. Born in France and raised across Europe, she spent the majority of her adult life at her villa in Florence, Italy, embedding herself deeply within the late-Victorian aesthetic movement alongside close peers like Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent. Writing under a male pen name to ensure her rigorous intellectual essays on art history, musical theory, and travel were taken seriously, she carved out a legendary parallel reputation as an unmatched master of the psychological ghost story. Her unique approach to the supernatural rejected the era's cliché gothic tropes, choosing instead to explore the profound, terrifying ways that history, deep aesthetic obsession, and pieces of classical art could violently bleed into and corrupt the modern psyche.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"n6owBd awi2gc\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-hveid=\"CAAICxAA\" data-complete=\"true\" data-processed=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", \"Helvetica Neue\", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 12px 0px 16px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);'\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"n6owBd awi2gc\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-hveid=\"CAAIEBAA\" data-complete=\"true\" data-processed=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", \"Helvetica Neue\", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 12px 0px 16px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);'\u003eThis highly regarded collection serves as a premier gathering of Lee’s most evocative, decadent, and sardonically whimsical weird fiction. The book's striking title story, \"Pope Jacynth,\" masterfully sets the tone, painting a rich, lushly detailed ecclesiastical fantasy steeped in medieval Italian atmosphere. The volume is further anchored by some of her most famous and highly anthologized masterpieces, including \"Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady\"—a tragic, poetic Decadent fairy tale originally featured in the legendary 1890s avant-garde periodical \u003cem class=\"zhvwWe\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-complete=\"true\" data-processed=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", \"Helvetica Neue\", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);'\u003eThe Yellow Book\u003c\/em\u003e—alongside \"A Wedding Chest,\" \"The Lady and Death,\" and \"St Eudæmon and His Orange-Tree\".\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"n6owBd awi2gc\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-hveid=\"CAAIEBAA\" data-complete=\"true\" data-processed=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", \"Helvetica Neue\", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 12px 0px 16px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);'\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"n6owBd awi2gc\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-hveid=\"CAAIEBAA\" data-complete=\"true\" data-processed=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", \"Helvetica Neue\", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 12px 0px 16px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);'\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDescription \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"n6owBd awi2gc\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-hveid=\"CAAIEBAA\" data-complete=\"true\" data-processed=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", \"Helvetica Neue\", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 12px 0px 16px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);'\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"n6owBd awi2gc\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-hveid=\"CAAIEBAA\" data-complete=\"true\" data-processed=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", \"Helvetica Neue\", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 12px 0px 16px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);'\u003eOriginal black cloth binding. Spine lettered in gilt. Some fading to cloth binding and bumping to points. Slightly split to head of spine and top corner of upper board. Top edge foxed. Few spots to the leading edge and gently toned with some creasing. Original dust jacket price clipped with some Edgeware and darkening. Slight chipping to head of spine. Rare to retain dust jacket. Good condition.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Moons Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57548427853990,"sku":null,"price":395.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/moons-rare-books.myshopify.com\/products\/pope-tacynth-and-more-supernatural-tales","provider":"Moons Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}