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Les Fleurs du Mal
Annotated
Baudelaire’s complete poetic architecture, including the six condemned poems, with bearings on form, Paris, spleen and the 1857 trial.
About the work
A landmark mystery, returned to its full narrative force.
Beauty and corruption, the modern city, desire, revolt and death unfold as stages in a single carefully ordered book. This edition preserves the six principal sections and the condemned poems, while concise notes illuminate Baudelaire’s forms and historical world.
Textual source. Complete French collection, including the six condemned poems; the later third-party preface is not reproduced.
What this edition adds
Care around the text,
never over it.
The complete collection
Every text remains in its documented sequence, with the original voice and structure preserved.
Context after the reading
Concise notes illuminate language, history and form without interrupting the work or anticipating its effects.
A coherent visual world
Five monochrome plates echo the material detail and atmosphere of the collection.
Accessible by design
Reflowable text, semantic navigation, descriptive links and alternative text support flexible reading.