Charles Baudelaire: Paris Blues (Anvil Editions)

This is one ridonculous translation. The translator, who's supposed to be a poet himself, keeps making dumb extra efforts,for instance translating the literal French equivalent of "that goes without saying" as "of course". During the course of reading this book,I improved my French tenfold-- the translation was, and at first seemed to be, so shady I had to reach for the dictionary for almost every corresponding word.

Interesting reading