Madame Bovary (Illustrated) (Spanish Edition)

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Emma Bovary is the original desperate housewife. Beautiful but bored, she is married to the provincial doctor Charles Bovary yet harbors dreams of an elegant and passionate life. Escaping into sentimental novels, she finds her fantasies dashed by the tedium of her days.

Motherhood proves to be a burden; religion is only a brief distraction. In an effort to make her life everything she believes it should be, she spends lavishly on clothes and on her home and embarks on two disappointing affairs. Soon heartbroken and crippled by debts, Emma takes drastic action with tragic consequences for her husband and daughter.

When published in , Madame Bovary was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for its heroine. Today the novel is considered the first masterpiece of realist fiction. After three years, however, Flaubert abandoned law and began writing. His first finished work was… More about Gustave Flaubert. Bonus points for the heartening gender balance of the initial selections. Why buy these particular classics when there are less expensive, even free editions of Great Expectations? Just a touch of wear; a fine copy. A little foxing; a couple of pages roughly opened; one leaf of text torn across, without loss; very slightly cocked; overall, an unusually attractive and fresh copy.

A little foxing; a couple of pages roughly opened; one leaf of te. Attractively bound in quarter red morocco and marbled boards, with raised bands and gilt titles on spines. Spotting to endpapers, some edgewear to boards. Previous owner name crossed out on half-title of V. Important edition of the early modern classic French novel. Cellar Stories Bookstore Published: First English language edition. Very Good with cloth rubbed at rear cover and extremities, with spine ends a bit bruised, spine cloth darkened.

Pages toned with scattered foxing to prelim and terminal pages. A rather sharp copy, in nicer shape than commonly found. The author's debut novel, a breakthrough in the craft of literary narration that helped create the modern novel. First edition, first trade issue with "Senart" for "Senard" on the dedication page. Two volumes, in contemporary half leather binding with a bit of restoration, bound without publisher's catalog at rear.

Owner names at front of each volume, sporadic age spotting to pages. A charming copy of the author's debut novel, a breakthrough in the craft of literary narration that helped create the modern novel. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark green morocco, titles and centre tool to spine gilt, single rule to boards gilt, inner dentelles gilt, burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. Frontispiece with tissue guard, 5 plates.

The occasional minor blemish but overall in excellent condition and in a fine binding. First edition in English of Flaubert's masterpiece. The translator was Karl Marx's daughter, then living openly with Edward Bibbens Aveling, a married man whose name she used in conjunction with her own. Flaubert's debut novel was five years in the making, and originally serialised in the Revue de Paris. It provoked charges of obscenity and immorality from the French government, resulting in a trial at which Flaubert was acquitted. The ensuing publicity also ensured that upon publication the book became a bestseller.

The heroine of the novel, Emma Bovary, ultimately commits suicide by swallowing arsenic - a fate which also befell her translator, Eleanor Marx-Aveling. Bound in a very pleasing near contemporary polished red morocco, with gilt lines and decorations to the compartments, and top edge gilt. Scarce title, translated by Karl Marx's daughter, with her 16 page introduction.

A few rubs, but an attractive copy. Madame Bovary Flaubert, Gustave First edition, first issue. Both parts bound in one, contemporary quarter leather and marbled boards without wrapper covers, but title and half title pages present. General scattered rubbing and one gathering a bit sprung else very good. Internally clean and sound. Controcorrente Group srl BibliotecadiBabele Published: Ships with Tracking Number! May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. Buy with confidence, excellent customer service!

Original blue cloth, yellow page marker. With the dust jacket. In the clear perspex slipcase and original packaging. A fine copy, still sealed.

Limited edition, number of 1, copies published to mark the 60th anniversary of Penguin Classics, with a dust jacket designed by the shoe designer Manolo Blahnik. Limited to copies. Dust jacket designed by Manolo Blahnik.

Madame Bovary

Housed in heavy clear plastic slipcase. Published to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Penguin Classics. Gibert Jeune, Librarie D'Amateurs, Raised bands on spine. Slight rubbing of spine. Two preliminary pages with finger smudges at top of pages. A first thus edition of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary. Very Scarce With Dustwrapper.

With14 illustrations by John Austen. Aliterary realist, Gustave Flaubert was acelebrated French novelistbest known forhis first publication Madame Bovary. In a cloth binding with gilt detail and original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart with light sunning to spine. Light marks to boards.

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Bumping to spine and extremities. Light browning to pastedowns and free-endpapers. Dustwrapper, unclipped with edgewear. Light chipping to head of spine. Pages bright and clean. Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert A.

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Limited edition, of copies designed by Manola Blahnik and published to mark the sixtieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, bound in blue cloth with a exquisite dust jacket by Blahnik housed in a perspex slipcase. Unopened and still sealed, a collectors copy. A heavy book which will qualify for extra postage..

Kelleher Rare Books Published: Very scarce in this condition.

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Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Hand bound in full black morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt. A handsome leather bound volume of this classic novel which was first published in

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