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Madame Bovary: Provincial Lives

Madame Bovary: Provincial Lives

Flaubert, Gustave
Wall, Geoffrey
Wall, Geoffrey

Hardcover

Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics

RomanceClassic FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $26.00

ISBN10: 0141394676
ISBN13: 9780141394671
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: May 26 2015
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
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 devastating consequences. Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: Madame Bovary, c'est moi. One of the greatest novels of the 19th century, Flaubert's torrid debut lives on in Geoffrey Wall's brilliant translation. This edition features an introduction by Wall, and a preface on Emma Bovary's femininity and modernity by novelist Michèle Roberts.

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardcover Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

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