Baudelaire: His Prose and Poetry

Charles Baudelaire

TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH VERSE BY CYRIL SCOTT LONDON ELKIN MATHEWS, VIGO STREET M CM IX DEDICATED TO ARTHUR SYMONS CONTENTS Benediction Echoes The Sick Muse The Venal Mus...

Charles Baudelaire

BAUDELAIRE: HIS PROSE AND POETRY Edited by T. R. SMITH BONI AND LIVERIGHT PUBLISHERS NEW YORK 1919 CONTENTS AVE ATQUE VALE.

Charles Baudelaire

BY GUY THORNE APPENDIX INDEX ILLUSTRATIONS CHARLES BAUDELAIRE (_Frontispiece_) THÉOPHILE GAUTIER L'AUTEUR DES FLEURS DU MAL (A bitter caricature of Baudelai...

Charles Baudelaire

I The Favours of the Moon The Moon, who is caprice itself, looked in through the window when you lay asleep in your cradle, and said inwardly: "This is a child after my own soul."

Jane Austen

Chapter 1 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Letter 1 St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17-- TO Mrs. Saville, England You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such ...

Herman Melville

Original Transcriber's Notes: This text is a combination of etexts, one from the now-defunct ERIS project at Virginia Tech and one from Project Gutenberg's archives.

Charles Dickens

Book the First--Recalled to Life I. The Period It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was...