The Flowers of Evil, which T. S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth century France with its outspoken portrayal of lesbian love, its linking sexuality and death, its unremitting irony, and its unflinching celebration of the seamy side of urban life. The volume was seized by the police, and Baudelaire and his published were put on trial for offence to public decency. Six offending poems were banned, in a conviction that was not overturned until 1949. This bold new translation, which restores the banned poems to their original places and reveals the full richness and
Le Dr Watson nous raconte les affaires les plus difficiles que le grand détective Sherlock Holmes a résolu avec l'aide de son compagnon de toujours. Le plus Britannique de tous les limiers procède avec méthode mais c'est toujours son intuition qui fait mouche !
Six enquêtes trépidantes qui ont donné du fil à retordre à nos deux héros.
'It was I who removed de P - this morning.' With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence of Razumov, his fellow student at St Petersburg University. Razumov aims to overcome the denial of his noble birth by a brilliant career in the tsarist bureaucracy created by Peter the Great. But in pre-revolutionary Russia Peter's legacy is autocracy tempered by assassination; and Razumov is soon caught in a tragic web with Haldin's trustful sister Natalia in spy-haunted Geneva. Their fateful story is told by an elderly Englishman who loves Natalia but plays his part of a 'dense Westerner' to the end.
Derived from the "Oxford Russian Dictionary", this edition offers vocabulary in each language, as well as appendices on grammar, writing letters, and information on life and culture in Russia.
