{"product_id":"manette-salomon-9781943813506-new","title":"Manette Salomon","description":"\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","brand":"SNUGGLY BOOKS","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":51545305940258,"sku":"9781943813506-new","price":28.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0893\/4755\/5618\/files\/9781943813506.jpg?v=1776421388","url":"https:\/\/www.albakireads.com\/products\/manette-salomon-9781943813506-new","provider":"AlbakiReads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}