Madame Bovary
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.
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| Bovary, Emma (Fictitious character) > Fiction. Married women > Fiction. Adultery > Fiction. Middle class > France > Fiction. |
| Genre |
| Domestic fiction. |
- ISBN: 9780140449129
- Physical Description xlii, 335 pages ; 20 cm.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2003.
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| General Note: | This translation first published: 1992. Translation of: Madame Bovary. |
| Language Note: | Translated from the French. |
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Madame Bovary
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 the consequences are devastating. Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted- 'Madame Bovary, c'est moi'.
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