Madame Bovary
Subtitle: a story of provincial life
By: [by] Gustave Flaubert., translated by Alan Russell
Series: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Harmondsworth
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Translation of: Madame Bovary
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780140440157
Copyright date: 1950
Subjects: Physicians; Suicide; Intellectual life; Charles Bovary (Fictitious character); Spouses; Fiction
Description: With Madame Bovary (1857) Flaubert established the realistic novel in France. Yet he always refused to ally himself with any literary movement, devoting himself in splendid isolation to his art, with that intense concern for stylistic perfection which has made him a legendary figure among novelists.

The central character of Madame Bovary is the bored wife of a provincial doctor, whose desires and illusions are inevitably shattered when reality catches up with her. Flaubert vents his profound contempt for the bourgeois mentality, but betrays a certain sympathy for the human frailty of Emma Bovary. She remains one of the great creatons of modern literature.
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