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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Category: Classics | Series: Chiltern Classic Ser.
One of the most influential novels ever written Gustave Flaubert is arguably one of the greatest writers of all time. His first novel, Madame Bovary, was published in 1856 and is considered a literary masterpiece by critics and scholars. His skillful turn of phrase combined with scandal on the nove ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling. Castigated for offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm. For Flaubert's contemporaries, the fascination came from the novelist's meticulous account of pro ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Category: Fiction
The bored wife of a bumbling provincial physician, Emma seeks to escape from the tedium of her life with romantic fantasies and adulterous affairs, but is ultimately doomed to disillusionment. Unable to come to terms with reality, Emma is a figure at once noble and banal, tragic and absurd. With her wre ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Category: Fiction | Series: Classics S.
The subject is French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, which Flaubert invented a modern style to match. Emma, a bored provincial housewife, abandons her husband Charles to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair. The author also wrote "Sentimental Education".
Madame Bovary by Adam (TRN) Gustave; Thorpe Flaubert
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics
Emma, a passionate dreamer raised in the French countryside, is ready for her life to take off when she marries the decent, dull Dr. Charles Bovary. Marriage, however, fails to live up to her expectations, which are fueled by sentimental novels, and she turns disastrously to love affairs. The story of E ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary is one of the most influential - and scandalous - novels of the nineteenth century. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Geoffrey Wall, with a preface by Michele Roberts.Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a medio ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Category: Classic Fiction
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 ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Heroines
One of the acknowledged masterpieces of 19th century realism, Madame Bovary is revered by writers and readers around the world, a mandatory stop on any pilgrimage through modern literature. Flaubert's legendary style, his intense care over the selection of words and the shaping of sentences, his unmatch ...Show more
Madame Bovary FRENCH EDITION by Gustave Flaubert
Category: Classic Fiction
Emma Bovary is a bored housewife who indulges her romantic fantasies with a series of adulterous affairs. Charged with obscenity when first published, the novel became a literary scandal and a bestseller. THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: - A concise introduction that gives the reader important ...Show more
"Madame Bovary": Level 6 by Gustave Flaubert
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Texts
Classic / British English (Available February 2008) Emma Bovary is a dreamer. She escapes from her boring life with her father by marrying Charles, a doctor, but married life does not bring her the love and excitement she expected. She looks for love outside her marriage, and one of literature's great t ...Show more