The Conran Shop MADAME BOVARY:…

This is one of 1000 limited-edition copies of "Madame Bovary" published to mark the sixtieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, with a special jacket created by the leading designer, Manolo Blahnik. Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life.An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. Manolo Blahnik"s Madame Bovary has a jacket on uncoated stock with an original painting by Mr Blahnik running from the front, over the spine and the back cover. There is a matt varnish over the entire jacket