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Madame Bovary: Provincial Lives
The notorious and celebrated novel that established modern realism For this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Flaubert invented a paradoxically original and wholly modern style. His heroine, Emma Bovary, a bored provincial housewife,...
Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
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Madame Bovary: Provincial Lives
Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually,...
Madame Bovary
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Madame Bovary
Step into 19th-century provincial France with Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert's groundbreaking novel that shocked and enthralled readers upon publication. Follow the tragic tale of Emma Bovary; restless, romantic, and relentlessly dissatisfied as she seeks passion and...
Madame Bovary
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Madame Bovary
For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for "offenses against morality and religion." What shocks us today about Flaubert's devastatingly realized tale of a young woman destroyed...
Madame Bovary: Contexts, Critical Reception
Margaret Cohen's careful editorial revision modernizes and renews Flaubert's stylistic masterpiece. In addition, Cohen has added to the Second Edition a new introduction, substantially new annotations, and twenty-one striking images, including photographs and engravings, that...
Madame Bovary: Provincial Ways
A literary event: one of the most celebrated novels ever written, in a magnificent new translation Seven years ago, the incomparable Lydia Davis brought us an award-winning, rapturously reviewed new translation of Marcel Proust's Swann's Way that was hailed as "clear and true...
Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners
One of the acknowledged masterpieces of 19th century realism, Madame Bovary is revered by writers and readers around the world, a mandatory stop on any pilgrimage through modern literature. Flaubert's legendary style, his intense care over the selection of words and the shaping...
Madame Bovary
This exquisite novel tells the story of one of the most compelling heroines in modern literature--Emma Bovary. "Madame Bovary has a perfection that not only stamps it, but that makes it stand almost alone; it holds itself with such a supreme unapproachable...
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary: A Norton Critical Edition
Margaret Cohen's careful editorial revision modernizes and renews Flaubert's stylistic masterpiece. In addition, Cohen has added to the Second Edition a new introduction, substantially new annotations, and twenty-one striking images, including photographs and engravings, that...
Madame Bovary: Bilingual Parallel Text in Franc...
Madame Bovary: Provincial Lives
'A masterpiece' Julian Barnes Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of a married woman's affair caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. Its heroine, Emma Bovary, is stifled by provincial life as the wife of a doctor. An ardent devourer of...
Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners (Oxford World...
Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners (Oxford World...
Madame Bovary
Both embodiment and victim of the self-satisfied nineteenth-century French bourgeoisie, Emma Bovary lives in pursuit of something more, like the world depicted in the romance novels that have come to define her. Emma is oblivious to the realities of life, and her romantic delusions...
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Madame Bovary: (Spanish Edition) [Spanish]
Madame Bovary
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Madame Bovary. Collector's Edition. The 100 Gre...
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary: Newly Translated and Annotated (...
Beautiful Emma Rouault yearns for the life of wealth, passion and romance she has encountered in popular sentimental fiction, and when her doctor, the well-meaning but awkward and unremarkable Charles Bovary, begins to pay her attention, she imagines that she may be granted her...
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Madame Bovary [French]
Madame Bovary: Bilingual Edition: English-French
Gustave Flaubert was born on December 12, 1821 in Rouen, France. After briefly studying law in Paris, he returned to Rouen, and in 1850 began writing his first published novel, Madame Bovary. It took him five years to complete and was met with outrage from public prosecutors...
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