FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE — Madame Bovary (Everyman's Library #808)
London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1953. Hardcover. A 1953 reprint of the 1928 issuance. Gustave Flaubert's novel, considered scandalous when first published in 1857, in an English language Everyman's Library reprint edition. 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. Includes an introduction by George Saintsbury. Though no translator is specifically mentioned, Everyman's Library Reader's Guide editor Donald Ross credits the translation to Eleanor Marx-Aveling (Ross, p.187). Entry 808 in Everyman's Library Fiction series. --- In Everyman's Library larger format binding style 4. Full rose cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling and interlocked 'EL' at tail of spine; orange topstain. In orange dust jacket with 'Everyman's Library' surrounded by scrollwork to front panel. --- A well-preserved, tightly-bound and unmarked copy, though with mild foxing to textblock fore-edge. Unclipped jacket (6s net) with chafing and a little rubbing to extremities, else intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; xv, 286 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .
