21 Days of a Neurasthenic Markus Werner and later was minister of

and later was minister of the first postwar government in Bulgaria

The long-awaited final work and magnum opus of one of the United States's greatest authors

and circus sideshow masquerading as a collection of short stories

a death that his executioners purposely intended to be prolonged and painful

"You keep reading this hypnotic novel the way a sleeping person wants to keep dreaming

21 Days of a Neurasthenic Markus Werner and later was minister ofOctave Mirbeau, author of The Torture Garden and Diary of a Chambermaid, wrote this scathing novel on the cusp of the twentieth century. Driven mad by modern life, Georges Vasseur leaves for a rest cure, where he encounters corrupt politicians, amnesiac coquettes, cheerfully sadistic killers, imperialist generals, and quack psychiatrists. Hypocrites are eternal, and not much has changed since Mirbeau wrote this acid portrait of his era. Octave