{"product_id":"pollen","title":"Pollen","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e    Beresford Egan (1905-1984) is perhaps best known as a satirist and illustrator, whose success du scandal \u003ci\u003e'The Sink of Solitude'\u003c\/i\u003e ( a satire of Radcliffe Halls  \u003ci\u003e'Well Of Loneliness'\u003c\/i\u003e) effectively launched his London career. His work appeared in a number of de-luxe books of the nineteen-twenties and thirties including works by De Sade, Baudelaire, Pierre Louys and Aleister Crowley though Egan also maintained careers as novelist, dramatist, theatre critic and actor. \u003ci\u003e'Pollen'\u003c\/i\u003e was his first novel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e   This 1933 semi-autobiographical novel of 'deco-decadence' concerns the artist  Lance Daurimer whose bohemian life brings him into contact with the recherche Anna Forster and the rich, but innocent, Marylyn Irriscourt. His relationships with these opposing characters take him from the club-land of Londons West End to the depths of Parisian Montmartre, while his soul vacillates between Luciferian ecstasy and the rites of the Holy Roman Church. The evocation of the former is the books only fantastic element.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e      Its stylish cynicism and polished prose will find approval from lovers of Wilde and Huysmans, whose clichés of decadence he knowingly (and lovingly) mocks. The novel also has a more caustic edge, satirizing of vacuous 'smart set' of the 'twenties and attacking the hypocrisy of establishment morals.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e      Egan's illustrations are integral to the work and, as in the original edition, have been separately printed for maximum quality and inserted, by hand, at the appropriate places within the text. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    The new edition also adds an end piece illustration unused in the original, and the transcript of a previously unpublished Egan lecture 'Black and White Art: What Is it?' given in 1933.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e      The volume is further enhanced by an introduction by Egans friend and biographer Adrian Woodhouse, in which he reveals the story behind the production of the original edition and exposes the autobiographical elements within the text.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e       Contents:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    •          \u003ci\u003e'Pollen'\u003c\/i\u003e - An Introduction - Adrian Woodhouse\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e    •          \u003ci\u003e'Pollen' - \u003c\/i\u003eBeresford Egan\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e    •        \u003ci\u003e 'Black and White Art: What Is It?' \u003c\/i\u003e- Beresford Egan [Previously unpublished]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e   \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e    ISBN: 978-0-9542953-8-7\u003cbr\u003e    300 numbered copies \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e    Offset printed and blocked on the front cover.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e    Full-page illustrations separately printed inserted by hand into the book during production.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e    Silk ribbon marker.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Side Real Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59062749331800,"sku":"9780954295387","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/0340\/7448\/files\/Pollencoversml.jpg?v=1794052016","url":"https:\/\/iglootree.com\/products\/pollen","provider":"Iglootree","version":"1.0","type":"link"}