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Product Identifiers

PublisherDover Publications, Incorporated

ISBN-101606601113

ISBN-139781606601112

eBay Product ID (ePID)237878153

Product Key Features

Book TitleMadame Bovary

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2017

TopicClassics, General

IllustratorYes, Lindner, Richard

GenreFiction

AuthorGustave. Flaubert

Book SeriesCalla Editions Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight44.9 Oz

Item Length10 in

Item Width7 in

Additional Product Features

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal843/.8

SynopsisAlthough Emma Bovary longed for a life of luxury and passion with a dashing lover who would live for her alone, she settled for marriage to a kind but dull country doctor. When the boredom of small-town life becomes unbearable, she indulges in her romantic dreams by taking lovers and extravagant spending. With her disastrous choice to turn her back on the real love that she's offered and restlessly seek something better, Emma reflects the false ideals and shallow values of her spiritually bankrupt society. Her story, rendered in Gustave Flaubert's lyrical prose, constitutes a satire of middle-class pretentiousness as well as an unprecedentedly realistic, nonjudgmental representation of an adulterous heroine. The most influential French novel of the 19th century, Madame Bovary was published in 1857. In addition to its popular and critical acclaim, the novel excited a burst of moral outrage, and Flaubert was unsuccessfully tried on the charge of contributing to public depravity. The book remains at the center of any discussion of realistic novels of provincial bourgeois life and literary depictions of adultery. Graced by 10 full-page line illustrations, this handsome hardcover edition presents the original English translation of Flaubert's masterpiece by Eleanor Marx-Aveling., A country doctor's wife craves romantic excitement, and the tedium of her provincial existence drives her to deceit and despair. This handsome hardcover edition of Flaubert's classic is graced by 10 full-page line illustrations., "This life of hers was as cold as an attic that looks north," Gustave Flaubert wrote of his protagonist, "and boredom, quiet as the spider, was spinning its web in the shadowy places of her heart." Madame Bovary longs for romantic excitement, and the tedium of her provincial existence drives her to deceit and despair. Flaubert's frank, nonjudgmental treatment of adultery scandalized Madame Bovary's first readers but his realistic satire of middle-class values forever changed the way novels were written. Graced by 10 full-page line illustrations by one of the noted precursors of the Pop Art movement, this handsome hardcover edition presents the original English translation by Eleanor Marx Aveling, the youngest daughter of Karl Marx.

LC Classification NumberPQ2246.M2E5 2017