{"product_id":"manette-salomon-9781943813506","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-7325859\"\u003eEdmond De Goncourt\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-4342127\"\u003eJules De Goncourt\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Snuggly Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/27\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 404\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781943813506\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1943813507\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC004000\"\u003eClassics\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Snuggly Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42676138442989,"sku":"9781943813506","price":36.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_e2dff49a-bdb5-4d8c-bdfd-743140224dc1.jpg?v=1649615216","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/manette-salomon-9781943813506","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}