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Flaubert (Gustave) Madame Bovary

translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, first English edition, plates, 32pp. advertisements, slight splitting to front hinge, original blue cloth, gilt and black, very slight rubbing, overall a very good example, 8vo, Vizetelly & Co., 1886.

***The tragic tale of Emma Bovary's attempts to escape marriage & motherhood's failure to live up to her own romantic expectations, through doomed affairs & excesses, ending with her own suicide in the face of insurmountable debts. Translated by Karl Marx's daughter, who also took her own life by poison..

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