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      Madame Bovary

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      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 ...

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      Product ID:9780140449129
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Title:Madame Bovary
      Authors:Author: Gustave Flaubert, Geoffrey Wall
      Page Count:384
      Subjects:Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Fiction in translation, Fiction in translation
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      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.

      ''A masterpiece'' Julian Barnes

      Flaubert''s erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of a married woman''s affair caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. Its heroine, Emma Bovary, is stifled by provincial life as the wife of a doctor. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and when real life continues to fail to live up to her romantic expectations, the consequences are devastating. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: ''Madame Bovary, c''est moi.''

      Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Geoffrey Wall
      With a Preface by Michèle Roberts


      Imprint Name:Penguin Classics
      Publisher Name:Penguin Books Ltd
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2003-01-30

      Additional information

      Weight282 g
      Dimensions197 × 128 × 23 mm