Madame Bovary: Bilingual Edition: English-French

The book looks beautiful and is a high quality production, although it is a little thick. It is well laid out. The producer has taken an existing translation and married it with the original French text. While the translation is not word for word, it captures the author's intent. This was a little off putting as I would occasionally glance to the English side to figure out what a word meant and it might not be there, or might not be in the place it is in the English text.My goal is to learn how to read French, and to do so you need to learn to figure out words in context. This edition really helps to achieve that goal. In retrospect I think if I had an exact translation of the French into English it would render the English text extremely clumsy and unreadable. But this was disorientating to begin with.All in all I am very happy with this edition.