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Nouvelles Histoires extraordinaires
Annotated
Baudelaire’s complete second French Poe collection—twenty-three tales from Le Chat noir to Le Portrait ovale—with Notes nouvelles and a focused apparatus.
About the work
A landmark mystery, returned to its full narrative force.
Doubles, guilty narrators, ruined houses and sealed rooms make this collection one of the central routes by which Poe entered French literature. All twenty-three tales and Baudelaire’s Notes nouvelles are included.
Textual source. Twenty-three complete tales translated by Charles Baudelaire, with his Notes nouvelles sur Edgar Poe.
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.