It was MADAME BOVARY that established Flaubert as one of the supreme masters of the realistic novel, with his objective, precise style typified by his use of "le mot juste." Somerset Maugham selected MADAME BOVARY as one of the ten greatest novels, saying that "Flaubert created the modern realistic novel and directly or indirectly has influenced all the writers of fiction since his day." Although the novel did appear in the early 1880s in America (a little-known undated Peterson edition, probably 1881), it did not appear in England until here in 1886, because UK publishers would not touch it - due to the fact that the lending libraries (responsible for most of any novel's initial sales) would likewise refuse it. However, he won the case, while the book gained notoriety that spurred its sales in France. Portraying the frustrations and love affairs of romantic young Emma Bovary, married to a dull provincial doctor, the book - first published in French in late 1856 - resulted in Flaubert being prosecuted on moral grounds. First English Edition of Flaubert's masterpiece, which was destined to become one of the great classics of world literature. Original aqua-blue cloth decorated in gilt, black and dark grey. Translated from the French Édition Définitive by Eleanor Marx-Aveling.
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