Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire

"Les Fleurs du Mal" by Charles Baudelaire is a volume of French poetry first published in 1857. This groundbreaking collection explores themes of decadence, eroticism, suffering, and death through unconventional imagery and forms. Six poems were censored upon release for immorality, sparking prosecution and controversy. The work broke with poetic tradition and became a cornerstone of symbolist and modernist movements. Now recognized as a major achievement in French literature, it profoundly influenced poets including Verlaine, Rimbaud, and Mallarmé. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867
Title Les Fleurs du Mal
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Fleurs_du_mal
Credits Produced by Tonya Allen, Julie Barkley, Juliet Sutherland,
Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
Reading Level Reading ease score: 71.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language French
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject French poetry -- 19th century
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EBook-No. 6099
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Most Recently Updated Jan 22, 2020
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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