Product Description: The “Petits Poemes en Prose” are experiments, and they are also confessions. “Who of us,” says Baudelaire in his dedicatory preface, “has not dreamed, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and without rhyme, subtle and staccato enough to follow the lyric motions of the soul, the wavering outlines of meditation, the sudden starts of the conscience?” This miracle he has achieved in these bagatelles laboriueses, to use his own words, these astonishing trifles, in which the art is not more novel, precise and perfect than the quality of thought and of emotion...read more

Product Description: The Child’s Book of Old Fashioned Fairy Tales II is meant to be read aloud. Mme. deChatelain was a premier translator of Grimm and Anderson in Victorian England and is well known for her eloquent sense of language. All the fairy tales are beautifully told with a challenging vocabulary...read more