The Chevalier Tannhäuser arrives at the Hill of Venus and is received into a court of extravagant dress, elaborate meals and pleasures described in Beardsley’s jewelled, ironic prose. Left unfinished at his death and long printed only in part as Under the Hill, this edition prints the whole manuscript, including passages of frank eroticism.
The one sustained prose work of the great illustrator, a key text of the 1890s Decadence. Download the free EPUB.