{"product_id":"manette-salomon-book-edmond-de-goncourt-9782070387991","title":"Manette Salomon","description":"\u003cp\u003eI 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","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49539035922705,"sku":"GOR007893777","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50407255998737,"sku":"GOR013063745","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53436857876753,"sku":"GOR014919974","price":14.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/2070387992.jpg?v=1751415262","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/manette-salomon-book-edmond-de-goncourt-9782070387991","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}