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Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
Gustave Flaubert
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Description for Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
Paperback. Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. She longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and the consequences are devastating. Translator(s): Wall, Geoffrey. Num Pages: 384 pages, chronology, notes. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 284.
'A masterpiece' Julian Barnes
Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of a married woman's affair caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. Its heroine, Emma Bovary, is stifled by provincial life as the wife of a doctor. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and when real life continues to fail to live up to her romantic expectations, the consequences are devastating. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140449129
SKU
V9780140449129
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About Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen in 1821. After illness interrupted a career in law, he retired to live with his widowed mother and devote himself to writing. He achieved limited success in his own lifetime, but his fame and reputation grew steadily after his death in 1880. Geoffrey Wall teaches French at the University of York. ... Read more
Reviews for Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
"Madame Bovary is like the railroad stations erected in its epoch: graceful, even floral, but cast of iron."
John Updike
John Updike