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Les Fleurs Du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) The original edition (paperback, $19.95, ISBN 9780879234621) has sold 16, 560 since 2008.This lower priced paperback has the text only, no illustrations, and is meant to compete against lower priced editions.National Book Award winner-the definitive translationARC mailing to retailer A-list

National Book Award Winner in poetry. Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork, translated into English by acclaimed poet Richard Howard, along with the original French text. Scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, love, death, the corrupting and oppressive power of the modern city and lost innocence, Les Fleurs Du Mal remains powerful and relevant for our time.In "Spleen et idéal, " Baudelaire dramatizes the erotic cycle of ecstacy and a...

Modern poetry begins with Charles Baudelaire (1821-67), who employed his unequalled technical mastery to create the shadowy, desperately dramatic urban landscape -- populated by the addicted and the damned -- which so compellingly mirrors our modern condition. Deeply though darkly spiritual, titanic in the changes he wrought, Baudelaire looms over all the work, great and small, created in his wake.