Tales from Shakespears

by Charles Baudelaire, Mary Lamb

270 pages, Paperback

About the author

Public condemned Les fleurs du mal (1857), obscene only volume of French writer, translator, and critic Charles Pierre Baudelaire; expanded in 1861, it exerted an enormous influence over later symbolist and modernist poets.

Reputation of Charles Pierre Baudelaire rests primarily on perhaps the most important literary art collection, published in Europe in the 19th century. Similarly, his early experiment Petits poèmes en prose (1868) ( Little Prose Poems ) most succeeded and innovated of the time.

From financial disaster to prosecution for blasphemy, drama and strife filled life of known Baudelaire with highly controversial and often dark tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Long after his death, his name represents depravity and vice. He seemingly speaks directly to the 20th century civilization.

Reviews

[Anthony Colozza · Rating 3 out of 5]

I always find myself going back to the classics thinking that I will finally be able to appreciate these time tested works of literature. However, more times then not I come away somewhat disappointed. Aside from the possibility that I am just not sophisticated enough to appreciate these classic works of literature the thing that I believe limits my appreciation is the writing style. And when it comes to Shakespeare the writing style definitely takes some getting use to. That is why when I found this book that took the Shakespeare stories and rewrote them in more modern english, well modern for the early 1900s, I thought ahh this will solve my problem. But alas, I came away with the same impression that I had of a lot of classic literature. They are basically hard to follow and are just not that interesting. There are exceptions to that statement and I can see how these writings would have been taken as revolutionary in the time when they were written. The characters and situations presented were truly novel and had never before been surmised. And I can appreciate that and recognize them as truly classic for that aspect alone. But as for something to sit down and enjoy reading, I just have to look elsewhere.

[LakshmiSandeep]

Wonderful classic tales ..