Boxing Babylon : Behind the Shadowy World of the Prize Ring

Collins, Nigel

ISBN 10: 0806511834 / ISBN 13: 9780806511832

Published by Citadel Pr, 1990

About this Item

269pp. Unmarked. VG/VG. Illustrated.

Seller Inventory # 15219

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Boxing Babylon : Behind the Shadowy World of the Prize Ring
• Publisher: Citadel Pr
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806511834
• ISBN 13: 9780806511832
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • A2 ----- SALE BOOKS
  • A1 ----- RECENT ACQUISITIONS
  • Sports

About this title

Synopsis

Chronicles the lives and careers of professional boxers, contrasting their success in the ring with their frequently tragic personal lives, arguing that boxing is a mirror reflecting the noble and dark sides of the human soul

About the Author

Charles-Pierre Baudelaire was born in Paris in 1821. His first publication was Le Salon de 1845, and he earned renown as an art critic and as a translator of Edgar Allan Poe. As a poet, his fame rests on Les Fleurs du mal. The collection was published in 1857, and certain poems were condemned as an offence against public morals; the book is now considered one of the masterpieces of nineteenth-century French literature. Baudelaire went to Brussels, where he hoped to earn money by lecturing; but his hopes foundered, his health gave way, and he was taken back to Paris, where he died in 1867.