Madame Bovary
Subtitle: provincial manners
By: Gustave Flaubert ; translated by Margaret Mauldon ; with an introduction by Malcolm Bowie ; and notes by Mark Overstall.
Contributors: Mauldon, Margaret.; Overstall, Mark.
Series: Oxford world's classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
Description: "When Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary she imagines she will pass into the life of luxury and passion that she reads about in sentimental novels and women's magazines. But Charles is a dull country doctor, and provincial life is very different from the romantic excitement for which she yearns. In her quest to realize her dreams she takes a lover, and begins a devastating spiral into deceit and despair."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxix]-xxv).