FLAUBERT, Gustave.
Madame Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life.
“She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris": Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary; Finely Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe
London: John Lane/The Bodley Head LTD, 1928.
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The Bodley Head edition of a seminal novel in literary realism, renowned for its psychological depth and critique of bourgeois society. Octavo, bound in full pictorial morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe/Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edges gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, with black and white illustrations by John Austen. In fine condition with several pages uncut. Translated and with an introduction by J. Lewis May. A beautiful example.
“Novelists should thank Gustave Flaubert the way poets thank spring: it begins with him. He is the originator of the modern novel… He began writing Madame Bovary in September 1851, and delivered the manuscript in 1856, when he was 35… No novelist agonized as much or as publicly… And no novelist reflected as self-consciously on questions of technique… Thus ‘style was born” (New York Times Book Review). Upon publication of Madame Bovary, both Flaubert and his publisher were arrested on charges of immorality and narrowly escaped conviction. Although purportedly based in part on the life of Flaubert’s friend Louise Pradier, the author’s claim that “Madame Bovary is myself,” with his unrelenting objectivity and deep compassion for his characters, identified him as the great master of the Realist school of French literature. The first edition in book form was published in France in 1857. With frontispiece, five full-page illustrations and ornamental head- and tailpieces.
Madame Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life.
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