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In this life of Baudelaire (1821-67) Claude Pichois has drawn on a century's worth of research and scholarship. Baudelaire's short life was a frought one, plagued by disease, impecuniousness and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in the history of Western thought cut as sharp and prescient a silhouette as Charles Baudelaire,...

A selection of Baudelaire's explicit and unsettling poems The poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity every day subjects ignored by French literary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: Some pencil underlining.In the mid-nineteenth century, Charles Baudelaire turned his razor-sharp critical eye upon the teeming spectacle of Parisian modernity, producing a...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerThis biography explores the life and works of Charles Baudelaire, a significant figure in French literature known for his influential...

Before publishing the sensuous and scandalous poems of Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) had already earned respect as a forthright and witty critic of art and literature. This...

Although best known for his collection of poetry, Les Fleurs du Mal , Baudelaire was also a gifted and inventive prose writer. In combining certain of the restrictions of poetic...

Condition remarks:Book: Good , ex-libraryJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Ex-library with usual markingsA landmark of French literary modernism, The Parisian Prowler: Le Spleen de Paris, Petits Poèmes en Prose...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat do Charles Baudelaire, Jules de Goncourt, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, and Alphonse Daudet have in common beyond their literary genius? According to...

The 'invigorating', 'stupendous' and 'exhilarating' guide (Observer) to the beguiling form which has attracted many of our most beloved writers 'It is hard to know how it could possibly be...

Poems to make your blood run cold. Poems to make your heart beat faster. Poems to sink your teeth into... Seductively sinister, both frightening and alluring, the undead have always...

Author: Antonio Munoz Molina Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Winner of the 2020 Prix Medicis Etranger. I want to live on foot, by hand, by pencil, at ease, responsive...

A brilliant new translation of a classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and art The Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects- "the first is Talleyrand,...

Poems to make your blood run cold. Poems to make your heart beat faster. Poems to sink your teeth into... Seductively sinister, both frightening and alluring, the undead have always...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the intersection of art, language, and the ineffable, Symbolism by Charles Chadwick stands as an essential guide...

In the introduction to his selection of some of the greatest sonnets ever written, Paul Muldoon reminds us that part of the reason for the 'durability' of the sonnet is...

Author: Antonio Munoz Molina Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Winner of the 2020 Prix Medicis etranger I want to live on foot, by hand, by pencil, at ease, responsive...