The Flowers of Evil / Les Fleurs Du Mal (Dual language French English Edition) - Softcover

Baudelaire, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1678129666 ISBN 13: 9781678129668

Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc., 2020

Synopsis

Upon its original publication in 1857 Charles Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du Mal" or "The Flowers of Evil" was embroiled in controversy. Within a month of its publication the French authorities brought an action against the author and the book's publisher claiming that the work was an insult to public decency. Eventually the French courts would acknowledge the literary merit of Baudelaire's work but ordered that six poems in particular should be banned from subsequent publication. The notoriety caused by this scandal would ultimately work in the author's favor causing the initial publication to sell out, thus prompting the publication of another edition. The second edition was published in 1861, it included an additional thirty-five poems, with the exclusion of the six poems censored by the French government. Finally in 1868 a third edition was published posthumously.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc.
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1678129666
• ISBN 13: 9781678129668
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204