Mademoiselle De Maupin (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML 53)

xl, 294 pp. From the 1887 Vizetelly translation. "Pierre Jules Theophile Gautier (August 30, 1811 - October 23, 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic. While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism. He was widely esteemed by writers as diverse as Balzac, Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, Flaubert and Oscar Wilde."