<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Manette Salomon 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>"I received both volumes at eleven o'clock this morning and I've just finished them. In other words, my dear fellows, <em>Manette Salomon</em> 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."</p><p>So 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 <em>Manette Salomon</em>, 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 <em>The Unknown Masterpiece</em> and Zola's <em>L'Oeuvre</em>--the latter novel Edmond de Goncourt even going so far as to say was nothing but a rewriting of <em>Manette Salomon</em>.</p><p>This 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.</p>
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