Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert [COLLECTOR'S EDITION HARDCOVER] 1997 • Doubleday X New York Public Library

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

COLLECTOR'S EDITION HARDCOVER [1997] THE MODERN LIBRARY

Limited edition collaboration between Doubleday and the New York Public Library, re-issuing various classics in stunning deluxe hardcover editions.

Features elegant metallic embossed dust jackets, acid-free deckle edged-paper, decorative endpapers and cloth-bound boards.

First printing / 1997. 

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.

Some mild shelf wear to dust jacket.  Ships in a new HQ jacket protector.

Book itself is mint; reads like new! 

ABOUT THE BOOK

In partnership with the New York Public Library, Doubleday is proud to introduce a very special collector's series of literary masterpieces. Lavishly illustrated with rare archival material from the library's extensive resources, including the renowned Berg collection, these editions will bring the classics to life for a new generation of readers. In addition to original artwork, each volume contains a fascinating selection of unique materials such as handwritten diaries, letters, manuscripts, and notebooks. Simply put, this series presents the work of our most beloved authors in what may well be their most beautiful editions, perfect to own or to give. Published on the occasion of Doubleday's 100th birthday, the New York Public Library Collector's Editions are sure to become an essential part of the modern book lover's private library.

Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and when real life continues to fail to live up to her romantic expectations, the consequences are devastating.