{"product_id":"manette-salomon-paperback","title":"Manette Salomon - Paperback","description":"\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\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 404\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 27, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42712209915967,"sku":"9781943813506","price":47.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/e344cf7538d4caeb98a8584992fda70c.webp?v=1765061004","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/manette-salomon-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}