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L’Hypocrite Lecteur est une série d’analyses consacrée à la lecture intégrale des Fleurs du Mal de Charles Baudelaire, sur la base des travaux du professeur Mario Richter. Poème après poème, strophe après strophe, Fabio Molina explore la rhétorique profonde de l’œuvre, sa philosophie, ses symboles et sa terrible moralité. Ici, la poésie n’est pas un exercice scolaire mais une expérience : celle de l’intelligence du mal, de la beauté et de la conscience. Chaque épisode cherche à dévoiler ce que Baudelaire a dissimulé, ce que sa forme sublime masque, et que sa pensée...

When the mischievous Cupid fires an arrow through the heart of Lord George Hell, that disreputable peer, desperate to win the love of sweetly innocent young Jenny Mere, obtains from fashionable mask-maker Mr. Aeneas a saintly mask of true love to disguise his own wicked features; and in this hypocritical disguise, Lord George finds a new life and a new morality.

Dive into the whimsical world of Sir Henry Maximilian Max Beerbohm, an English essayist and caricaturist, as he presents The Happy Hypocrite A Fairy Tale for Tired Men. This charming short story carries moral undertones and offers a humorous twist reminiscent of Oscar Wildes classic, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Follow the tale of a man who cleverly dons a mask to win the heart of a woman, exploring themes of deception and identity with wit and levity.

Short stories of one secret group out for graphic revenge on political situations gone too far.

In "The Happy Hypocrite", mischievous Cupid compels disreputable Lord George Hell to win the love of sweet young Jenny Mere by assuming a saintly mask of true love to disguise his own wicked features. "Zuleika Dobson" tells the story of the effect of the devastatingly attractive Miss Dobson on the all-male undergraduate body of Oxford, culminating in a watery end to the Eights Week boat races. And in "Seven Men", Beerbohm blurs the boundary between fact and fiction to tell the incredible stories of six men (Beerbohm himself is the seventh) from the world of the 1890s.