Brings together Arthur Rimbaud's poetry, prose, and letters, including The Drunken Boat, The Orphans' New Year , After the Flood , and A Season in Hell . This book is divided into eight 'seasons' including - Childhood, The Open Road, War, The Tormented Heart, The Visionary, and The Damned Soul - that reflect the facets of Rimbaud's life.

A neurasthenic aristocrat turns his back on the vulgarity of modern life and retreats to an isolated country villa. Here he pursues his obsessions with exotic flowers, rare gems and perfumes and embarks on a series of increasingly strange aesthetic experiments.

Follows Durtal, a shy, censorious man, who is writing a biography of Gilles de Rais. Bored by the vulgarity of everyday life, he seeks spiritual solace by immersing himself in another age. But when he meets the exquisitely evil Madame Chantelouve, he is drawn into the twilight world of black magic and erotic devilry in fin-de-siecle Paris.

A Jewish classic of great interest to anyone interested in the Kabbala or mysticism.