Madame Bovary
$33.89
- Hardcover
384 pages
- Release Date
24 September 2014
Summary
The searing, tragic French classic in a gorgeous clothbound 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 psych…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141394671 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141394676 |
| Author: | Gustave Flaubert |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 24 September 2014 |
| Weight: | 503g |
| Dimensions: | 206mm x 137mm x 33mm |
| Series: | Penguin Clothbound Classics |
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“Madame Bovary is like the railroad stations erected in its epoch: graceful, even floral, but cast of iron.” – John Updike
“Madame Bovary is like the railroad stations erected in its epoch: graceful, even floral, but cast of iron.” – John Updike
About The Author
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. His greatest works include Madame Bovary (1857), Sentimental Education (1857) and Bouvard et Pecuchet (1881). He achieved limited success in his own lifetime, but his fame and reputation grew steadily after his death in 1880.
Geoffrey Wall is a literary biographer, translator and travel writer. His biography of Flaubert, published in 2001, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His translations of Flaubert include Madame Bovary, Selected Letters, The Dictionary of Received Ideas, Sentimental Education and Three Tales.
Mich le Roberts is the half-English half-French writer of ten highly praised novels.
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