num_pages: 256
description: Bored and unhappy in a lifeless marriage, Emma Bovary yearns to escape from the dull circumstances of provincial life. Married to a simple-minded but indulgent country doctor, she takes one lover, then another, hastens her husband's financial ruin with her extravagance...Gustave Flaubert (1821-1888) was brought to trial by the French government on the grounds of the novel's alleged immorality, but unlike his less fortunate contemporary, Baudelaire, he narrowly escaped conviction.Falubert's powerful and deeply moving examination of the moral degeneration of a middle-class Frenchwoman is universally regarded as one of the landmarks of 19th-century fiction. It is reproduced here, complete and unabridged, in the classic translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, daughter of Karl Marx.Unabridged, slightly corrected Dover (1996) republication of the translation first published by Vizetelly and Company, London, 1886.(back cover)
language: English
title: Madame Bovary
titlecomplete: Madame Bovary
characters: Berthe Bovary, Monsieur Homais, Rodolphe Boulanger, Emma Bovary, Charles Bovary, Léon Dupuis
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, French Literature, Classics, France, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Romance, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 322047
places: France, Tostes, Rouen, Yonville-l'Abbaye
publisher: Dover Publications