{"product_id":"paris-spleen","title":"Paris Spleen","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city with all its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and mortality, and the liberation provided by the sensual delights of intoxication, art and women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished posthumously in 1869, Paris Spleen was a landmark publication in the development of the genre of prose poetry – a form which Baudelaire saw as particularly suited for expressing the feelings of uncertainty, flux and freedom of his age – and one of the founding texts of literary modernism. This volume also includes Baudelaire’s 1851 essay ‘Wine and Hashish’.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Charles Baudelaire, Martin Sorrell, Maurice Stang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47675889647785,"sku":"9781847494931","price":12.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9781847494931.jpg?v=1789184375","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/paris-spleen","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}