{"product_id":"manette-salomon-paperback-1","title":"Manette Salomon - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEdmond De Goncourt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJules De Goncourt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eTina Kover\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I received both volumes at eleven o'clock this morning and I've just finished them. In other words, my dear fellows, \u003cem\u003eManette Salomon\u003c\/em\u003e has enraptured me for an entire day. It's stunning, dazzling, intoxicating. I have tears in my eyes. So I must unleash these feelings on you, without pausing to sort them out first.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo wrote Flaubert, in a letter to the brothers Edmond and Jules de Goncourt on November 13th, 1867. And his enthusiasm was certainly not unfounded, for \u003cem\u003eManette Salomon\u003c\/em\u003e, here superbly translated for the first time into English by Tina Kover, is undoubtedly one of the greatest novels about art ever written, sitting easily between Balzac's \u003cem\u003eThe Unknown Masterpiece\u003c\/em\u003e and Zola's \u003cem\u003eL'Oeuvre\u003c\/em\u003e--the latter novel Edmond de Goncourt even going so far as to say was nothing but a rewriting of \u003cem\u003eManette Salomon\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is one of the masterpieces of European literature--a panorama of the world of the painters of France during the mid-nineteenth century--the schools, the studios, the salons--the successes and failures, the magnificent inspirations and the crushing disillusions of the artists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 404\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 27, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47248771186937,"sku":"9781943813506","price":39.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/YjFwYkFzeUt3SW84LzB0dFFHTUIwdz09_10f8d980-8b3e-40d4-b77f-f14a5eeb1672.webp?v=1768640963","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/manette-salomon-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}