Madame Bovary
Subtitle: life in a country town
By: Gustave Flaubert ; translated by Gerard Hopkins ; with an introduction by Terence Cave and notes by Mark Overstall
Contributors: Hopkins, Gerard, 1892-1961; Cave, Terence; Overstall, Mark
Series: Oxford world's classics; Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780585363950
Subjects: Charles Bovary (Fictitious character); Fiction; Physicians; Adultery; Middle class; History; Husband and wife; Suicide; Social life and customs; Intellectual life; Bovary, Charles (Personnage fictif); Romans, nouvelles; Médecins; Mœurs et coutumes; Vie intellectuelle; FICTION; General; Manners and customs
Work titles: Madame Bovary
Description: An ordinary woman's unfulfilled dreams of romantic love lead her to a series of desperate acts, including adultery, in a classic novel set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century bourgeois France.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages xxi-xxii).