THE ATHENAEUMThe Flowers of EvilCharles Baudelaire
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The Flowers of Evil
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textBaudelaire’s poems of Paris, love, decay and boredom, published in 1857. Within weeks he and his publishers were prosecuted for offending public morals, fined, and made to cut six poems. A French court did not lift the ban on those six until 1949.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 30 minutes
- Where to find it
- The Unwelcome Spines, beyond the Restricted Catalogue
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #36098. In the public domain in the United States.