Name: Madame Bovary (Everyman's Library)
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Author: Gustave Flaubert
ISBN: 9780679420316

portada Madame Bovary (Everyman's Library)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Translated by

Introduction by

Publisher

Year

1993

Language

English

Pages

368

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

20.9 x 13.5 x 2.8 cm

Weight

0.51 kg.

ISBN

0679420312

ISBN13

9780679420316

Synopsis "Madame Bovary (Everyman's Library) "

Emma, a passionate dreamer raised in the French countryside, is ready for her life to take off when she marries the decent, dull Dr. Charles Bovary. Marriage, however, fails to live up to her expectations, which are fueled by sentimental novels, and she turns disastrously to love affairs. The story of Emma's adultery scandalized France when Madame Bovary was first published. Today, the heartbreaking story of Emma's financial ruin remains just as compelling. In Madame Bovary, his story of a shallow, deluded, unfaithful, but consistently compelling woman living in the provinces of nineteenth-century France, Gustave Flaubert invented not only the modern novel but also a modern attitude toward human character and human experience that remains with us to this day. One of the rare works of art that it would be fair to call perfect, Madame Bovary has had an incalculable influence on the literary culture that followed it. This translation, by Francis Steegmuller, is acknowledged by common consensus as the definitive English rendition of Flaubert's text.

Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert (Rouen, December 12, 1821-Croisset, May 8, 1880) was a French writer. Considered one of the greatest novelists worldwide, he is mainly known for his novel Madame Bovary, as well as for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style, the best example of which was his endless search for le mot juste (‘the exact word’).

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