Madame Bovary

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Madame Bovary

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ISBN: 9780143106494
author: Gustave Flaubert
translator: Lydia Davis
publishing house: Penguin Classics
publication date: 2012 -4
series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
binding: Paperback
price: GBP 12.99
number of pages: 384

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Gustave Flaubert    translator: Lydia Davis

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This is a major new translation of one of the most popular classics of all time, now in a gorgeous deluxe 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 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'.

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