MADAME BOVARY (ML# 28.1, New Modern Library Edition, 1927.)

FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE, Written by (1821-1880) An influential French Writer widely considered one of the greatest novelists in Western literature. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857); Translated by Eleanor Marx Aveling; Introduction by Henri Peyre

Edité par New York: The Modern Library Publishers. New Modern Library Edition, 1927.

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BOOK: Rare Maroon Color Balloon Cloth; Spine 5; Large leaping torchbearer on front; Kent endpapers; brown topstain. After 100,000 printings the plates were replaced and this is from the first printing using those new plates. STORY: Charles Bovary, the only son of a middle-class family, became a doctor and set up his practice in a rural village. He made a marriage of convenience with a woman older than himself. Upon his wife's death, Bovary married an attractive young woman named Emma Roualt, the daughter of one of his patients. For a while Emma was excited and pleased by her marriage, but because of her superficial romantic ideals she was soon bored and disillusioned by her new life. As a result of her dissatisfaction she became ill.

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• Titre: MADAME BOVARY (ML# 28.1, New Modern Library Edition, 1927.)
• Éditeur: New York: The Modern Library Publishers. New Modern Library Edition, 1927.
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket