Madame Bovary [electronic resource] : Penguin Classics
Gustave Flaubert2007
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'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
Main title:
Madame Bovary [electronic resource] : Penguin Classics / Gustave Flaubert
Author:
Gustave Flaubert, Author
Imprint:
United Kingdom : Penguin, 2007
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (384 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780141906225
Language:
English
BRN:
434530
Electronic access:
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