{"product_id":"intimate-journals-paperback","title":"Intimate Journals - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharles Baudelaire\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eChristopher Isherwood\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eW. H. Auden\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the most influential French poets of the nineteenth century, Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was also an important art critic and translator. In fact, his translations of Edgar Allan Poe's works are considered classics of French prose. Throughout much of his life, however, Baudelaire was dismissed as a vulgar drug addict preoccupied with sex and death. Prosecuted for obscenity and reeling from one financial disaster to another, he produced a number of literary works that went unrecognized during his lifetime. Perhaps the most significant collection of poetry published in Europe during the nineteenth century, his \u003ci\u003eFlowers of Evil\u003c\/i\u003e was critically condemned, and the remaining years of his life were marked by a sense of failure, disillusionment, and despair.\u003cbr\u003eThis volume of the poet's essays and drawings -- collected and published after his death -- includes cryptic memoranda, literary notes, quotations, rough drafts of prose poems, and personal tirades. More than anything else, they reveal the spiritual underpinnings of his work, transcending the squalor of financial ruin and the torture of physical decline to offer compelling thoughts on his world, society, and philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.35 x 8.62 x 5.54 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 16, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51756168053024,"sku":"9780486447780","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/fadcd19d4bebcc8f8a899b7490ee73a6.webp?v=1780076126","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/intimate-journals-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}