As the Roman Republic lurched to its close, amid corruption, ruthless power struggles and gross inequality, Cicero produced some of the most stirring and eloquent speeches ever written. Whether he is quashing the Catiline conspiracy, defending the poet Archais or railing against Mark Anthony in the
Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
β Scribed by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
- Publisher
- Penguin Group (USA);Penguin Group USA, Inc
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 133 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
In both his life and his poetry,Charles Pierre Baudelairepushed the accepted limits of his time. His dissolute bohemian life was as shocking to his nineteenth-century readers as his poetry. Writing in classical style but with brutal honesty, Baudelaire laid bare human suffering, aspirations, and perversions.
β¦ Subjects
Fiction
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