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Flaubert and Madame Bovary - A Double Portrait
por Francis Steegmuller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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Collins, 1947. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1947. New Edition. 336 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Dust jacket covered in removable plastic wrapper over blue cloth. Library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Deckled edges. Clean pages with mild tanning and notable foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Mild scuffing to front endpaper. Heavy tape staining to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards are assumed in good condition as are covered with taped on jacket. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Heavy foxing. Heavy tanning to spine. Notable rubbing and marking all over.
Sinopse
Francis Steegmuller was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1906, and educated in the public schools of Greenwich and at Columbia University. He was the author of many works about French culture and its great literary figures; translator of Gustave Flaubert’s letters and of the Modern Library edition of Madame Bovary . He was the recipient of many literary honors, including the National Book Award for his biography of Jean Cocteau, and he was a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Steegmuller divided his life between New York City and Europe. In 1963, he married the novelist Shirley Hazzard. He died in Naples in 1994. Victor Brombert is the Henry Putnam University Professor of Romance and Comparative Literature Emeritus at Princeton, and has served as chairman of its Council of Humanities. A former president of the Modern Language Association and member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the author of a dozen books of literary criticism, in addition to his wartime memoirs Trains of Thought . He has published extensively on Flaubert, both in this country and in France.
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- Livreiro
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- Estoque do vendedor nº
- 1707841370LEE
- Título
- Flaubert and Madame Bovary - A Double Portrait
- Autor
- Francis Steegmuller
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Good/Good
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Editorial
- Collins
- Data de publicação
- 1947
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- New
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