The Flowers of Evil

by Charles Baudelaire

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"The Flowers of Evil" by Charles Baudelaire is a volume of French poetry first published in 1857. This groundbreaking collection broke with tradition through suggestive imagery and unusual forms, exploring themes of decadence, eroticism, suffering, and death. Six poems were censored for immorality, and Baudelaire was prosecuted for insulting public decency.

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