Madame Bovary
Subtitle: Provincial Lives
By: Gustave Flaubert ; translated with an introductionby Geoffrey Wall.
Contributors: Wall, Geoffrey.
Edition: Penguin film and TV tie-in edition (1)
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1993
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780140171402
Copyright date: 1992
Description: Emma, the beautiful and adulterous wife of Charles Bovary, is one of the great modern heroines of fiction 

Stifled in her marriage to a mediocre provincial doctor, Emma attempts to escape into colourful fantasies of romance until, in Rodolphe, her yearning for a lover finds its treacherous object of desire. 'Madame Bovary is myself— drawn from life,' Flaubert curiously said. Certainly Madame Bovary is his masterpiece, a consummate portrait of French bourgeois life and, caught into it, a love affair tense with irony and eroticism, pathos and despair.
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Notes: UK/CAN