Collecting together eighty-six different pieces of prose from sixty-one authors, Decadence and Sybmolism: A Showcase Anthology, is the most broad-ranging anthology of its kind. Surveying the movements from their beginnings onward, the volume brings together texts from well-known exponents such as Rimbaud and Baudelaire, as well as numerous lesser-known authors, many of whose work is being made available in English for the first time. Editor and translator Brian Stableford provides an in-depth introductory essay, as well as brief biographies of the various personalities presented. Complete list of authors included: Charles Baudelaire Arthur Rimbaud Théophile Gautier Xavier Forneret Théodore de Banville Paul Verlaine X. B. Saintine Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle Adam Ernest Hello Catulle Mendès Joris-Karl Huysmans Charles Cros Frédéric Champsaur Stéphane Mallarmé Jean Moréas Gustave Kahn Jules Laforgue Charles Morice G. Albert Aurier Paul Adam Francis Poictevin Remy de Gourmont André-Ferdinand Herold Adolphe Retté Bernard Lazare Jean Lorrain Pierre Louÿs Camille Mauclair Stuart Merrill Éphraïm Mikhaël Henri de Régnier Jules Renard Saint-Pol-Roux Gabriel de Lautrec Pierre Quilllard Marcel Schwob Frédéric Boutet Pierre Veber Tristan Bernard Judith Gautier Hugues Rebell Gaston Danville May Armand Blanc Renée Vivien Alfred Jarry Francis Jammes J. H. Rosny aîné Henri Austruy Léon Bloy Jean Richepin Louis Codet Léon Daudet Claude Cébel Jane de La Vaudère Edmond Haraucourt Henry Detouche Hélène de Zuylen de Nyevelt Jacques Lamer Gaston Pawlowski Maurice Magre Han Ryner