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The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
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The Flowers of Evil

The Definitive English Language Edition

Verso Books · 2025-01-07

The Flowers of Evil: The Definitive English Language Edition

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Who It's For

  • Good for readers who enjoy Literary Collections / European / French
  • Good for readers interested in short stories
  • Good for fans of Poetry

What You Get

  • Themes: Life, Collection, Romantic.
  • Reading lane: European.
  • Publisher: Verso Books.

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  • Literary Collections

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  • Literary Criticism

    79%
  • Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

    77%

About This Book

A DUAL-LANGUAGE EDITION OF THE WORK THAT SCANDALIZED PARIS AND REINVENTED BEAUTY Probing the depths of the modern psyche in a voice at once caustic and vulnerable, melancholic and humorous, Baudelaire’s infamous book brings to the surface a new understanding of evil, of eroticism, and of social life through an astonishing variety of poetic forms and styles. This edition adds the poems banned from the original 1857 publication to the expanded collection of 1861 and includes a...

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A DUAL-LANGUAGE EDITION OF THE WORK THAT SCANDALIZED PARIS AND REINVENTED BEAUTY Probing the depths of the modern psyche in a voice at once caustic and vulnerable, melancholic and humorous, Baudelaire’s infamous book brings to the surface a new understanding of evil, of eroticism, and of social life through an astonishing variety of poetic forms and styles. This edition adds the poems banned from the original 1857 publication to the expanded collection of 1861 and includes an introduction from the translator, acclaimed poetry scholar Nathan Brown.

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