Madame Bovary
Subtitle: Provincial Morals
By: Gustave Flaubert
Edition: printing (3)
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780099573074
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Fiction, general
Description: ‘A great novel that is also an inexhaustible pleasure to read' Guardian

Emma Bovary is an avid reader of sentimental novels; brought up on a Normandy farm and convent-educated, she longs for romance. At first, Emma pins her hopes on marriage, but life with her well-meaning husband in the provinces leaves her bored and dissatisfied. She seeks escape through extravagant spending sprees and, eventually, adultery. As Emma pursues her impossible reverie she seals her own ruin.

Madame Bovary is one of the greatest, most beguiling novels ever written.
--back cover
Notes: Vintage Classics UK/CAN