Madame Bovary: Provincial Lives - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Gustave Flaubert, Geoffrey Wall (Translator), Geoffrey Wall (Introduction by)Series:Penguin Clothbound ClassicsPublish date:2015-05-26Pages:384
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin GroupISBN-13:9780141394671ISBN-10:141394676UPC:9780141394671Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, RomanceSize:8.00 x 5.30 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCX3N4MSJ4
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, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and devastating consequences. Flaubert's erotically charged and...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin GroupISBN-13:9780141394671ISBN-10:141394676UPC:9780141394671Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, RomanceSize:8.00 x 5.30 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCX3N4MSJ4
Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen in 1821. After illness interrupted a career in law, he retired to live with his widowed mother and devote himself to writing. His greatest works include Madame Bovary (1857), Sentimental Education (1857) and Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881). He achieved limited success in his own lifetime, but his fame and reputation grew steadily after his death in 1880. Geoffrey...
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