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Madame Bovary: Introduction by Victor Brombert

Madame Bovary: Introduction by Victor Brombert

Steegmuller, Francis
Flaubert, Gustave
Brombert, Victor

Hardcover

Series: Everyman's Library Classics

Classic FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

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ISBN10: 0679420312
ISBN13: 9780679420316
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: Feb 23 1993
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.12
Height: 1.09 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.24
Language: English

Emma, a passionate dreamer raised in the French countryside, is ready for her life to take off when she marries the decent, dull Dr. Charles Bovary. Marriage, however, fails to live up to her expectations, which are fueled by sentimental novels, and she turns disastrously to love affairs. The story of Emma's adultery scandalized France when Madame Bovary was first published. Today, the heartbreaking story of Emma's financial ruin remains just as compelling.

In Madame Bovary, his story of a shallow, deluded, unfaithful, but consistently compelling woman living in the provinces of nineteenth-century France, Gustave Flaubert invented not only the modern novel but also a modern attitude toward human character and human experience that remains with us to this day.

One of the rare works of art that it would be fair to call perfect, Madame Bovary has had an incalculable influence on the literary culture that followed it. This translation, by Francis Steegmuller, is acknowledged by common consensus as the definitive English rendition of Flaubert's text.

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