This large leather masterpiece of literature and bookmaking is in NEAR PERFECT condition with no markings inside or out and no attached bookplates. There are no real imperfections and no wear. It looks and feels like a brand new book. I realize that as Easton Press books go, this one is fairly common. That doesn't diminish the fact that this is an absolutely gorgeous leather book containing one of the best pieces of literature ever written, published in a definitive form and in pristine condition... it just means that you can own it at a lower price that it's certainly worth!

Long established as one of the greatest novels, Madame Bovary has been described as a "perfect" work of fiction. Henry James wrote: "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." Marcel Proust praised the "grammatical purity" of Flaubert's style, while Vladimir Nabokov said that "stylistically it is prose doing what poetry is supposed to do". Similarly, in his preface to his novel The Joke, Milan Kundera wrote, "not until the work of Flaubert did prose lose the stigma of aesthetic inferiority. Ever since Madame Bovary, the art of the novel has been considered equal to the art of poetry." Giorgio de Chirico said that in his opinion "from the narrative point of view, the most perfect book is Madame Bovary by Flaubert". Julian Barnes called it the best novel that has ever been written. A seminal work of literary realism, the novel is now considered Flaubert's masterpiece and one of the most influential literary works in history.

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