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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 07/08/2008
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ISBN: 9780099511861
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Length: 496 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 31mm x 129mm
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Weight: 341g
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RRP: £5.99
‘A great novel that is also an inexhaustible pleasure to read' Guardian
Emma Bovary is an avid reader of sentimental novels; brought up on a Normandy farm and convent-educated, she longs for romance. At first, Emma pins her hopes on marriage, but life with her well-meaning husband in the provinces leaves her bored and dissatisfied. She seeks escape through extravagant spending sprees and, eventually, adultery. As Emma pursues her impossible reverie she seals her own ruin.
Madame Bovary is one of the greatest, most beguiling novels ever written.
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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 07/08/2008
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ISBN: 9780099511861
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Length: 496 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 31mm x 129mm
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Weight: 341g
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RRP: £5.99
Reviews
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"Full of the energies of discord - sibling rivalry, greed, ambition, illicit sexual passion, and vanity"
Margaret Drabble
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"Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire"
J.K. Rowling
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"Jane Austen at her most genteelly ascerbic"
The Times
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"Austen looks at her world with a cool, undressing gaze...she is a formidable opponent of hypocrisy and sentimentality"
Observer
