Following the success of the Vintage Classics Russians series, these are equally go r geous editions of must-have European classics

The Vintage Classics Europeans series - with covers provided by textile design firm Wallace Sewell, these are must-have editions of European masterpieces, celebrating the warp a nd weft of a shared literary treasury.

TRANSLATED fr om THE FRENCH BY AWARD-WINNING NOVELIST (AUTHo r OF ULVERTON) a nd POET ADAM THo r PE

Madame Bovary begins wh ere many other novels end: with marriage. But Emma Bovary is ill-prepared fo r the prosaic reality of life as a country docto r ’s wife, a nd so plunges into a doomed search fo r passion a nd delight, flitting fr om fantasy to religion, fr om hedonism to devoted motherhood, fr om shopping to extra-marital sex. Flaubert’s brutally beautiful tale is subversive in its sexual frankness, revolutionary in its influence a nd an inexhaustible pleasure to read.

‘One of the finest novels in any language’ Independent