Madame Bovary
Subtitle: provincial lives
By: Gustave Flaubert ; translated with an introduction by Geoffrey Wall
Contributors: Wall, Geoffrey, fl. 1978-
Edition: 6th printing
Series: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1992
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780140445268
Copyright date: 1992
Work titles: Madame Bovary.
Description: Madame Bovary is Flaubert's masterpiece, initially a succes de scandale and now a landmark in European literature.

He took for his subject French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, and invented a paradoxically original and wholly modern style to match. His heroine is Emma, a bored provincial housewife who abandons her husband Charles Bovary to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair.
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