Madame Bovary (2020) - Limited Edition

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Madame Bovary (2020) - Limited Edition
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Madame Bovary (2020) - Limited Edition

Gustave Flaubert
Edition year 2020
Binding Silk
Illustrator Nushka
Translator Adam Thorpe
Limited edition Yes
Signed Yes
Weight 2 Kg
Pages 336
Dimensions 28 × 18.7 cm

Edition details

Madame Bovary, Provincial Morals by Gustave Flaubert. 10 colour plates, including frontispiece, printed on Natural Evolution Ivory paper by Nushka. Introduced by Karl Ove Knausgård. Translated by Adam Thorpe. Foreword by Henry James. Signed by the translator, introducer and artist. Letterpress limitation label tipped-in by hand. Pale-blue endpapers. Bound in Douppion silk printed with a painting by Nushka, title blocked in gold foil on spine. Gilded page tops. Ribbon marker. Cloth-covered pale blue slipcase. Separate loose print by Nushka. 336pp. 11?x7½in. 750 copies

About the book

Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary follows Emma Bovary, a provincial doctor's wife whose romantic expectations leave her deeply dissatisfied with the realities of marriage and small-town life. Seeking excitement and fulfilment, Emma turns to affairs, luxury and increasingly reckless spending. Flaubert's precise prose and unsentimental observation create a powerful study of illusion, desire, boredom and self-deception, making the novel one of the masterpieces of nineteenth-century realism. She seeks excitement through affairs, luxury and fantasy, gradually accumulating debts and emotional disappointment.

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