Three Tales – Gustave Flaubert (Limited Editions Club, 1978, illustrated by May Neama)
This elegant LEC volume presents Flaubert’s Trois Contes (1877)—A Simple Heart, The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitalier, and Herodias—with ethereal wood engravings by May Neama, an Egyptian-French artist known for her delicate, symbolist style. The trio of stories, spanning medieval hagiography, bourgeois tragedy, and biblical decadence, finds perfect foil in Neama’s flowing, almost Art Nouveau linework.
For Collectors of Illustrated Literature:
- Madame Bovary (LEC, 1958) – Leonard Baskin’s grotesque engravings – Flaubert’s masterpiece, equally daring.
- The Temptation of St. Anthony (LEC, 1946) – Alvin Lustig’s surrealist designs – Flaubert’s other religious fever-dream.
- The Golden Ass (LEC, 1940) – Jean de Bosschère’s erotic woodcuts – Another mythic LEC gem.
