Madame Bovary
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- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
5 March 2003
Summary
Madame Bovary: A Portrait of Longing and Ruin
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 por…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140449129 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140449124 |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Author: | Gustave Flaubert, Geoffrey Wall |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 5 March 2003 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 23mm |
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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. 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. His biography of Flaubert has been translated into four languages. Mich le Roberts is the half-English half-French writer of ten highly praised novels.
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