Charles Baudelaire; Louise Varèse [trans.] — Paris Spleen 1869

New York, New Directions, 1947. Cloth. Baudelaire's posthumously published collection of prose poems, translated into English by Louise Varèse. A later edition of the English translation of this work in a quarter cloth binding, with decorative paper boards, designed by George W. Van Vechten Jr. Le Spleen de Paris, also known as Paris Spleen, is a collection of fifty prose poems, associated with literary modernism, by the renowned French poet and critic Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867). The collection was published posthumously in 1869 by his sister. In this work, Baudelaire aimed to capture the political upheaval in France during the mid-nineteenth century. It explores many themes, such as poverty, social class, intoxication, morality and mortality. In a quarter cloth binding. Externally very smart, with a little fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine .