About this title: Francis Steegmuller's beautifully executed double portrait of Madame Bovary and her maker is a remarkable and unusual biographical study, a sensitive and detailed account of how an unpromising young man turns himself into one of the world's greatest novelists. Steegmuller starts with the young Flaubert, prone to mysterious fits, hypochondriacal, at odds with and yet dependent on his bourgeois family. Then, drawing on Flaubert's voluminous correspondence, Steegmuller tracks his subject through friendships and love affairs, a trip to the Orient, nervous breakdown and tenuous recovery, and ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 1950
Description: Grade: C. Catalog: Non-Fiction Biography Synopsis: 365 pages. Dealing with a fascinating subject in a vital and exciting way, it has the dramatic appeal of a superior novel. Informing but not pedantic, ... read more
Edition: Second Revised Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus And Company
Date Published: 1950
Description: Very Good-with no dust jacket. Tan cloth hardcover, indexed, small tape marks on free end papers, else tight, a nice solid copy. read more
Description: Steegmuller, Francis., Houghton Mifflin 'Sentry Editions', 1970, c1966, 1st printing (of this edition), illus. soft cover, vg-f, 374 pp w/index, bibliography & appendix, 8vo, 'A classic double portrait of the artist and his model' read more
Description: Good. A Good copy with a Remainder Mark and wear to the covers and the extremities. Buy with confidence from an Independent Bookstore where the owners, a husband and wife team, have over 30 years of combined bookselling experience. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin 1970.
Date Published: 1970
Description: VeryGood/large paperback. Name on endpage but no notes in text. First Sentry Edition. Covers a little soiled o/w very nice. Indexed. read more
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