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Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - 9780143106494 - V9780143106494
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Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

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Description for Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) 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): Davis, Lydia. Series: Penguin Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 145 x 26. Weight in Grams: 416.
A major new translation of one of the most popular classics of all time, now in a gorgeous deluxe edition. Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, 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. Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780143106494
SKU
V9780143106494
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About Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen in 1821. Aside from journeys to the Near East, Greece, Italy, and North Africa, and a stormy liaison with the poetess Louise Colet, his life was dedicated to the practice of his art. The success of Madame Bovary (1857) was ensured by government prosecution for immorality ; Salammbo (1862) and The Sentimental Education ... Read more

Reviews for Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
National Bestseller Winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize One of New York magazine's Ten Best Books of the Year A Providence Journal Best Book of the Year One of National Public Radio's Favorite Books of the Year Lydia Davis's Madame Bovary translation=perfect. She somehow pulls off a respectful translation with the readability of a ... Read more

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