Author: FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE
Title: Madam Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life
Description: London and Glasgow: Collins Clear-Type Press, 1953. Hardcover. A 1953 edition of Gustave Flaubert's novel, considered scandalous when first published in 1857. This is the story of Emma Bovary, a woman whose marriage bores her and who engages in various affairs with other men in order to enliven and add luxury to her life. This work has been described as ".the most perfect novel ever created" by British literary critic Arthur Symonds. With a brief biographical sketch of the author by "H.d.R." and with a black & white frontis image of Flaubert. Translated from the French and with an introduction by J. Lewis May. An entry in Collins New Classics series. --- Bound in full maroon cloth-covered boards with simple gilt spine titling, grey patterned endpapers and maroon topstain. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- A bright, unmarked, tightly bound copy though small spots of whitish soiling to cloth, otherwise lacking damages worthy of mention.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; 352 pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .

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