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For your consideration: 1979 Franklin Library Hardcover Leatherette edition of MADAME BOVARY by Gustave Flaubert, translated by Francis Steegmuller, and illustrated by Malcolm Liepke. This book is in beautiful condition with tight binding and appears completely unread. Be sure to check out our other listings this week for a number of Franklin Library volumes in amazing condition. We offer combined shipping with USPS Media Mail. ENJOY! The Franklin Library was a division of The Franklin Mint that produced fine collector edition leather bound books over three decades ending in the year 2000. For this reason all Franklin Library editions are now considered "out of print" and are no longer available for sale from the Franklin Mint. All Franklin Library Editions exhibit: • High quality paper. • Pages that are sewn not glued into the binding. • Gold gilded page edges on all three sides. • Raised spine bands that give each book that distinctive antique look. "‘Madame Bovary’ has a perfection that not only stamps it, but that makes it stand almost alone: it holds itself with such a supreme unapproachable assurance as both excites and defies judgment." —Henry James "Ever since ‘Madame Bovary’, the art of the novel has been considered equal to the art of poetry." —Milan Kundera "From the narrative point of view, the most perfect book is ‘Madame Bovary’ by Flaubert." —Giorgio de Chirico "Stylistically it is prose doing what poetry is supposed to do." —Vladimir Nabokov "‘Madame Bovary’ show Flaubert as the pioneer of our age, the portraitist and philosopher of the modern world." —Émile Zola "Possibly the most beautifully written book ever composed; undoubtedly the most beautifully written novel… a book that invites superlatives… the most important novel of the century." —Frank O’Connor This exquisite novel tells the story of one of the most compelling heroines in modern literature — Emma Bovary. Unhappily married to a devoted, clumsy provincial doctor, Emma revolts against the ordinariness of her life by pursuing voluptuous dreams of ecstasy and love. But her sensuous and sentimental desires lead her only to suffering corruption and downfall. A brilliant psychological portrait, Madame Bovary searingly depicts the human mind in search of transcendence. Who is Madame Bovary? Flaubert's answer to this question was superb: "Madame Bovary, c'est moi." Acclaimed as a masterpiece upon its publication in 1857, the work catapulted Flaubert to the ranks of the world's greatest novelists.