Madame Bovary
New York, NY: The Limited Editions Club, 1950. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed by illustrator Pierre Brissaud. Considered one of the most influential literary works in history and the masterpiece of French novelist Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), Madame Bovary was first published in 1857 and elicited outrage from the French. The story follows an enthusiastic and romantic young woman being disillusioned slowly by the average life she finds herself living; she begins..... More
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