Madame Bovary
Contributors: Robin Morgan (Introduction); Mildred Marmur (Translator)
Edition: 1st Signet Classic printing (3)
Publisher: Signet Classic
Published: 2001-12
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9780451528209
Copyright date: 2001
First sentence: We were studying when the headmaster came in, followed by a new boy, not yet wearing a school uniform, and a monitor carrying a large desk.
Description: Set amid the stifling atmosphere of nineteenth-century bourgeois France, Madame Bovary is at once an unsparing depiction of a woman’s gradual corruption and a savagely ironic study of human shallowness and stupidity. Neither Emma, nor her lovers, nor Homais, the man of science, escapes the author’s searing castigation; and it is the book’s final profound irony that only Charles, Emma’s oxlike, eternally deceived husband, emerges with a measure of human grace through his stubborn and selfless love. With its rare formal perfection, Madame Bovary represents, as Frank O’Connor has declared, “possibly the most beautifully written book ever composed; undoubtedly the most beautifully written novel…a book that invites superlatives…the most important novel of the century.”
(back cover)
Notes: US/CAN