Complete and unabridged, with 99 full-page plates by Édouard Manet, Paul-Louis Delance and Luc-Olivier Merson. A country doctor's wife in Normandy reads romances, takes lovers, runs up debts with a draper who is patient for exactly as long as it suits him, and reaches for the arsenic. Flaubert was prosecuted for offending public morals in 1857 and acquitted; he wrote at a page a week and read every sentence aloud. Nothing is explained and nothing is forgiven. Ninety-nine plates by Manet, Renoir, Degas and their circle catch the reading, the meadows and the river light of the Normandy that Flaubert set beside Emma's debts.
Complete and unabridged, with 99 full-page plates by Édouard Manet, Paul-Louis Delance and Luc-Olivier Merson. A country doctor's wife in Normandy reads romances, takes lovers, runs up debts with a draper who is patient for exactly as long as it suits him, and reaches for the arsenic. Flaubert wa...