``I received both volumes at eleven o\'clock this morning and I\'ve just finished them.
And his enthusiasm was certainly not unfounded, for Manette.
So I must unleash these feelings on you, without pausing to sort them out first.`` So wrote Flaubert, in a letter to the brothers Edmond and Jules de Goncourt on November 13th, 1867.
I have tears in my eyes.
It\'s stunning, dazzling, intoxicating.
In other words, my dear fellows, Manette Salomon has enraptured me for an entire day. ``I received both volumes at eleven o\'clock this morning and I\'ve just finished them