The Flowers of Evil: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 54 original MP3 tracks, 1:28:25 running time and a link to listen.
The Flowers of Evil, credited to Charles Baudelaire, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire. (Translated by Cyril Scott.) Read in English by sarahsyahiirah; Andrew K Waugh; Assaf Koss; Jairus Amar; Salma Yasser; Amy Gramour; John E. Farrell; Shakira Searle; Jordan Heron; KHand; Stav Berman; Maryanka; Phil Winkelman; Lea Salzano; Ken Masters This is a collection of French poems by Charles Baudelaire, originally titled "Les Fleurs du mal." It was popular in the symbolist and modernist movements of the 19th century, and the poems are about decadence and eroticism. (Summary by Assaf Koss)
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Flowers of Evil
- Author credits: Charles Baudelaire
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 54
- Listed recording duration: 1:28:25
Catalogue topics
- poetry
- politics
- religion
- death
- God
- love
- criticism
- beauty
Opening tracks: first 24 of 54
- 01 - Benediction — 5:19
- 02 - Echoes — 1:09
- 03 - The Sick Muse — 1:25
- 04 - The Venal Muse — 1:20
- 05 - The Evil Monk — 1:20
- 06 - The Enemy — 1:19
- 07 - Ill Luck — 1:05
- 08 - Interior Life — 1:10
- 09 - Man and the Sea — 1:46
- 10 - Beauty — 1:33
- 11 - The Ideal — 1:12
- 12 - The Giantess — 1:13
- 13 - Hymn to Beauty — 2:44
- 14 - Exotic Perfume — 1:32
- 15 - La Chevelure — 2:44
- 16 - Sonnet XXVIII — 1:27
- 17 - Posthumous Remorse — 1:20
- 18 - The Balcony — 2:31
- 19 - The Possessed One — 1:10
- 20 - Semper Eadem — 1:21
- 21 - All Entire — 1:41
- 22 - Sonnet XLIII — 1:32
- 23 - The Living Torch — 1:31
- 24 - The Spiritual Dawn — 1:14
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