Provincial Manners Translated from the French by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
Madame Bovary Provincial Manners Translated from the French by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
Vizetelly & Co. 1886.
First English edition. 8vo. Publisher's petrol blue cloth with gilt decorations, vignettes and lettering. 32 pages of adverts dated September 1886. Frontispiece and five further black and white plates. A fine, bright copy. There is a slight spine lean and a bumped lower corner, page 296 has a slight production fault to the top edge resulting in a short closed edge tear. An unusually crisp copy.
The first published English translation of Flaubert's masterpiece translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, daughter of Karl Marx.
Madame Bovary, Flaubert's debut novel, was five years in the making and was originally serialised in the Revue de Paris. The serialisation provoked charges of immorality and obscenity from the French government with a resulting trial from which Flaubert was acquitted. The publicity from the trial ensured that on publication the book became a bestseller.
The heroine of the novel, Emma Bovary, is a Doctor's wife who finding provincial life dull seeks entertainment in extramarital affairs. She eventually commits suicide by swallowing arsenic, a fate which also befell her translator Eleanor Marx-Aveling.
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