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Madame Bovary (Vintage Classic Europeans Series)

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784875022

  • Length: 384  Pages

  • Dimensions: 216mm x 28mm x 153mm

  • Weight: 429g

  • RRP: £10.99

Madame Bovary (Vintage Classic Europeans Series)

The Vintage Classics Europeans series - with covers provided by textile design firm Wallace Sewell, these are must-have editions of European masterpieces, celebrating the warp and weft of a shared literary treasury.


TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY AWARD-WINNING NOVELIST (AUTHOR OF ULVERTON) AND POET ADAM THORPE

Madame Bovary begins where many other novels end: with marriage. But Emma Bovary is ill-prepared for the prosaic reality of life as a country doctor’s wife, and so plunges into a doomed search for passion and delight, flitting from fantasy to religion, from hedonism to devoted motherhood, from shopping to extra-marital sex. Flaubert’s brutally beautiful tale is subversive in its sexual frankness, revolutionary in its influence and an inexhaustible pleasure to read.

‘One of the finest novels in any language’ Independent

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784875022

  • Length: 384  Pages

  • Dimensions: 216mm x 28mm x 153mm

  • Weight: 429g

  • RRP: £10.99

Reviews

  • Magnificent. I insist everyone reads Adam Thorpe's new translation

    Vogue

  • The most scandalous novel of all time

    Playboy

  • Flaubert's 1856 novel begins with marriage and what follows is the archetypal tale of a desperate housewife

    Daily Telegraph

  • ‘Thorpe's new translation of Madame Bovary is to die for’

    Independent

  • [Thorpe’s] hard work has yielded beauty. The rhythms are perfectly judged, unexpected enough to make the reader attend to every word

    Robert Chandler,, TLS

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About the Author

Gustave Flaubert

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 Wall is a literary biographer, translator and travel writer. His biography of Flaubert, published in 2001, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His translations of Flaubert for Penguin include Madame Bovary, Selected Letters, The Dictionary of Received Ideas, Sentimental Education and Three Tales. Michèle Roberts is the half-English half-French writer of ten highly praised novels.

Gustave Flaubert

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