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Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners
Gustave Flaubert
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Description for Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners
Paperback. Emma Bovary yearns for a life of luxury and passion of the kind she reads about in romantic novels. But life with her country doctor husband in the provinces is unutterably boring, and she embarks on love affairs to realize her fantasies. This new translation by Margaret Mauldon perfectly captures Flaubert's distinctive style. Translator(s): Mauldon, Margaret. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 256.
'Would this misery go on forever? Was there no escape? And yet she was every bit as good as all those other women who led happy lives!' When Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary she imagines she will pass into the life of luxury and passion that she reads about in sentimental novels and women's magazines. But Charles is a dull country doctor, and provincial life is very different from the romantic excitement for which she yearns. In her quest to realize her dreams she takes a lover, and begins a devastating spiral into deceit and despair. Flaubert's ... Read more
'Would this misery go on forever? Was there no escape? And yet she was every bit as good as all those other women who led happy lives!' When Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary she imagines she will pass into the life of luxury and passion that she reads about in sentimental novels and women's magazines. But Charles is a dull country doctor, and provincial life is very different from the romantic excitement for which she yearns. In her quest to realize her dreams she takes a lover, and begins a devastating spiral into deceit and despair. Flaubert's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199535651
SKU
V9780199535651
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About Gustave Flaubert
Margaret Mauldon has worked as a translator since 1987. For OWC she has translated Zola's L'Assommoir, Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma, Huysmans' Against Nature (winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for translation, 1999), Constant's Adolphe, and Maupassant's Bel-Ami. Malcolm Bowie was previously Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of All Souls College ... Read more
Reviews for Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners
A superb new translation. s