Madame Bovary
Subtitle: Patterns of Provincial Life
By: a new translation by Francis Steegmuler
Series: Modern Library College Editions
Publisher: The Modern Library
Published: 1957
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 396
Copyright date: 1957
Subjects: Suicide victims; Physicians' spouses; Married women; Adultery; Middle class; NOVELAS FRANCESAS; Fiction
Work titles: Madame Bovary
Description: The slow but inevitable moral degeneration of a weak woman. Describes the patient rendering of the squalor and narrowness of provincial life and of its effect on the woman's mind.