Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 sentimental novels she seeks escape in fantasies of high romance in voracious spending and eventually in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and when real life continues to fail to live up to her romantic expectations the consequences are devastating. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: Madame Bovary c'est moi. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Geoffrey Wall With a Preface by Mich le Roberts
Title: Madame Bovary
Author(s): Flaubert Gustave
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780140449129
Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 12/31/2002
Category: Fiction In Translation