Madame Bovary
Subtitle: provincial ways
By: Gustave Flaubert ; translated with an introduction and notes by Lydia Davis
Contributors: Davis, Lydia, 1947-
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780670022076
Subjects: Fiction; Physicians' spouses; Married women; Adultery; Middle class
Work titles: Madame Bovary
Description: Offers a new translation of Flaubert's classic tale, in which the title character turns to spending and a series of affairs to combat the boredom of married life and, heartbroken and crippled by debts, takes drastic action that results in tragedy.
Notes: Translated from French.

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxvii-xxviii).