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The Flowers of Evil

Charles Baudelaire

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1857
Originally in
Originally in French
Pages
Pages 200

A poet walks the beautiful, rotting modern city and makes verse out of everything respectable poetry refused: boredom, lovers, corpses, wine, the devil at his elbow.

Hypocrite reader! -- You! -- My twin! -- My brother!
The Flowers of Evil, Charles Baudelaire

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