Madame Bovary | A limited edition from The Folio Society
Gustave Flaubert’s masterpiece Madame Bovary is considered one of the greatest books ever written and also one of the most influential. Radical in both its stylistic innovation and its scandalous content, it is as absorbing today as it was over 150 years ago.
For this exquisite new limited edition, we have selected Adam Thorpe’s critically acclaimed translation for its authenticity and fluidity; the text complemented by French artist Nushka’s superb oil paintings, commissioned by Folio. An extract from Henry James’s essay on Madame Bovary offers an appraisal of the work on first reading, while multi-award-winning author Karl Ove Knausgård’s exclusive introduction considers the novel from a contemporary perspective.
The Douppion silk binding, printed with a Nushka painting and blocked in gold, the letterpress-printed limitation label signed by Thorpe, Knausgård and Nushka and tipped in by hand, and a collector’s print by the artist, complete this remarkable limited edition.
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