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Walter Benjamin

This is the author of the book.

Baudelaire

This is a famous French author and thinker that is often mentioned in the book.

Victor Hugo

This person is an important author of the 19th century, and there is one photograph of him included in the book.

Friedrich Nietzsche

This is one of the 19th century German philosophers.

Karl Marx

This person focused upon the hopes and challenges represented by the efforts of the lower economic classes of people to attain rights and bearable working conditions.

Howard Eiland

This man has translated the body of this work from the original German language into easily readable English.

Kevin McLaughlin

This is the man who handled the French translations in the book.

Sales-clerks

The author describes these people in the first 100 pages of the book and documents their working efforts at the arcades.

God

This entity is brought up...

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