Madame Bovary
By: Gustave Flaubert; translated by J. Lewis May; introd. by Jacques de Lacretelle; illus. by Pierre Brissaud; engraved in wood by Theó Schmied.
Publisher: Heritage Press
Published: 1950
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 348
Copyright date: 1950
Description: Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and when real life continues to fail to live up to her romantic expectations, the consequences are devastating. Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857.