Charles Baudelaire - Flowers of Evil & other works (5 books)

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE (1821-1867) was a French poet, essayist, and art critic. His most famous work, LES FLEURS DU MAL (The Flowers of Evil) -- here presented in multiple translations -- expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the 19th century. Baudelaire's highly original style of prose-poetry influenced a whole generation of poets including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé among many others. He is credited with coining the term "modernity" (modernité) to designate the fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis, and the responsibility art has to capture that experience.


The following books are a mix of ePUB or PDF formats:

* COMPLETE POEMS (Carcanet, 2006). Bilingual edition; translated by Walter Martin. -- ePUB

* THE FLOWERS OF EVIL (Oxford World's Classics, 1993). Bilingual edition; translated with Notes by James McGowan, with an Introduction by Jonathan Culler. -- ePUB

* LES FLEURS DU MAL [The Flowers of Evil] (David R. Godine, 1982). Bilingual edition translated by Richard Howard, illustrated with nine original monotypes by Michael Mazur. -- PDF

* THE PAINTER OF MODERN LIFE (Penguin Classics, 2010). Translated by P. E. Charvet. -- ePUB

* PARIS SPLEEN & LA FANFARLO (Hackett, 2008). Translated with Introduction and Notes by Raymond N. MacKenzie. -- PDF