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On the 200th anniversary of Baudelaire’s birth comes this stunning landmark translation of the book that launched modern poetry. Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Charles Baudelaire, a Parisian bohemian, spent much of the ... Read More about The Flowers of Evil: (Les Fleurs du Mal)

Bilingual edition of the French masterpiece-with the definitive English translation.... Read More about The Flowers of Evil: The Award-Winning Translation

Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city with all its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and mortality, and the liberation provided by the ... Read More about Paris Spleen: Dual-Language Edition

The bilingual, illustrated, and National Book Award-winning edition of Charles Baudelaire's masterpiece. The complete French text is accompanied with an English translation by Richard Howard. Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex love, d... Read More about Les Fleurs Du Mal: Bilingual Edition

A major work of world literature, The Flowers of Evil scandalized Baudelaire’s contemporaries and reinvented beauty in the midst of modernity. This dual-language edition of the definitive 1861 version features a new translation by acclaimed poetry scholar Nathan Brown and a new introduction.A major ... Read More about The Flowers of Evil: The Definitive English Language Edition

Charles Baudelaire invented modern poetry, and Flowers of Evil has been a bible for poets from Arthur Rimbaud to T. S. Eliot to Edna St. Vincent Millay, who, with George Dillon, composed an inspired rhymed version of the book published in 1936 and reprinted here, with the French originals, for the f... Read More about Flowers of Evil