Echoing the original World's Classics series, this title is one of a complete set of 18 mini-hardbacks produced to a gift book standard with stitched binding, head and tail bands, printed on 60msg paper and featuring matt laminated jackets in a retro look design. The translation used here is Gerard Hopkins's classic 1949 rendition of Flaubert's great novel. The volume also boasts an introduction by Anita Brookner, whose latest novel Falling Slowly, appeared in January 1999 (Random House).
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