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Flaubert and Madame Bovary: A Double Portrait
by Steegmuller, Francis
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0226771377
- ISBN 13
- 9780226771373
- Seller
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Iowa City SE, Iowa, United States
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About This Item
Univ of Chicago Pr, 1977. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Revised edition. Price punched out on upper cover.
Synopsis
Francis Steegmuller was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1906, and educated in the public schools of Greenwich and at Columbia University. He was the author of many works about French culture and its great literary figures; translator of Gustave Flaubert’s letters and of the Modern Library edition of Madame Bovary . He was the recipient of many literary honors, including the National Book Award for his biography of Jean Cocteau, and he was a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Steegmuller divided his life between New York City and Europe. In 1963, he married the novelist Shirley Hazzard. He died in Naples in 1994. Victor Brombert is the Henry Putnam University Professor of Romance and Comparative Literature Emeritus at Princeton, and has served as chairman of its Council of Humanities. A former president of the Modern Language Association and member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the author of a dozen books of literary criticism, in addition to his wartime memoirs Trains of Thought . He has published extensively on Flaubert, both in this country and in France.
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- Bookseller
- Murphy-Brookfield Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 327317
- Title
- Flaubert and Madame Bovary: A Double Portrait
- Author
- Steegmuller, Francis
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0226771377
- ISBN 13
- 9780226771373
- Publisher
- Univ of Chicago Pr
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, Il
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- FLAUBERT GUSTAVE 1821 1880 LITERARY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
Murphy-Brookfield Books
Payment with order, credit cards accepted (Mastercard, Visa & Discover), personal checks on US banks, Money orders in US funds, libraries billed upon request. Returns accepted within two weeks with advance notification.All books wrapped carefully and shipped promptly.
About the Seller
Murphy-Brookfield Books
Biblio member since 2006
Iowa City SE, Iowa
About Murphy-Brookfield Books
Murphy-Brookfield Books has been in business in Iowa City, Iowa, since 1980, specializing in scholarly used books in the Humanities. Areas of interest are Philosophy, Women\'s Studies, History, Literary Criticism, University Press.
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