Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

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Finding herself stifled by marriage, Emma Bovary throws herself into a desperate love affair and by doing so, sows the seeds of her own downfall.

ISBN: 9780141394671 Category:

Description

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’.

Additional information

Weight 0.5 kg
Dimensions 20 × 13.4 × 3.4 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

xlii, 335

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

843.8 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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