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Madame Bovary

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141394671

  • Length: 384  Pages

  • Dimensions: 204mm x 35mm x 138mm

  • Weight: 501g

  • RRP: £14.99

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'.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141394671

  • Length: 384  Pages

  • Dimensions: 204mm x 35mm x 138mm

  • Weight: 501g

  • RRP: £14.99

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About the Author

Gustave Flaubert

Flaubert was born in 1821. After illness ended a career in law, he retired to live with his mother and devote himself to writing. He achieved limited success in his own lifetime, but his reputation grew steadily after his death in 1880. Geoffrey Wall teaches French at the University of York. His biography of Flaubert has been translated into four languages.

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