The following passage from Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray has Dorian reading the Yellow Book, which is a gift from Lord Henry.  This "yellow book" is understood by critics to be A Rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans, a representative work of Parisian decadence. 

“His eye fell on the yellow book that Lord Henry had sent him.
What was it, he wondered. He went towards the little,
pearl-coloured octagonal stand that had always looked to him
like the work of some strange Egyptian bees that wrought in silver,
and taking up the volume, flung himself into an arm-chair and began
to turn over the leaves. After a few minutes he became absorbed.
It was the strangest book that he had ever read. It seemed to him
that in exquisite raiment, and to the delicate sound of flutes,
the sins of the world were passing in dumb show before him.
Things that he had dimly dreamed of were suddenly made
real to him. Things of which he had never dreamed were
gradually revealed” (91).

The Yellow Book, a quarterly literary journal, is the quintessence of the 1890s, which was called the Fin de siècle era.  This journal featured leading authors associated with the movement.  The Yellow Book is described in the following:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yellow_Book

The Picture of Dorian Gray exemplifies the decade that is associated with the Yellow Book.