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Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert, Geoffrey Wall

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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 BarnesFlaubert'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 Michele Roberts

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
384
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN:
9780140449129
Published Date:
30/1/2003
Dimensions:
198mm x 129mm x 22mm
Weight:
281g
Category:
Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

RRP: £8.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9780140449129

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