(5) Vintage Black Leather Bound Classic Books

PERFECT GIFT FOR A BIBLIOPHILE/BOOK LOVER! (5) Vintage, Black Bound Classic Books in Excellent Condition Binding: Softcover -- Mademoiselle De Maupin by Theophile Gautier (1811 – 1872), 294 pages A woman uses her incredible beauty to captivate both d'Albert, a young poet, and disguised as a man, his mistress, Rosette -- The Way Of All Flesh by Samuel Butler (1835 – 1902), 410 pages A semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler that attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. -- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1821 – 1880), 400 pages A doctor's wife whose passions and romantic notions drive her to start an affair, accumulate debts, entangle herself in lies and, in the end, commit suicide. -- Candide by Voltaire (1694 – 1778), 236 pages The story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." -- Nana by Émile Zola (1840 – 1902), 517 pages The story of Nana Coupeau's rise from streetwalker to high-class prostitute during the last three years of the French Second Empire. Published by The Rhodes Press, New York