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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,... Read Full Overview

The notorious and celebrated novel that established modern realism

Margaret Cohen's careful editorial revision modernizes and renews Flaubert's stylistic masterpiece. In addition, Cohen has added to the Second Edition a new introduction, substantially new annotations, and twenty-one striking images, including photographs and engravings, that... Read Full Overview

'A masterpiece' Julian Barnes Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of a married woman's affair caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. Its heroine, Emma Bovary, is stifled by provincial life as the wife of a doctor. An ardent devourer of... Read Full Overview

Madame Bovary dans la version originale fran aise. Madame Bovary in the original French.

Margaret Cohen's careful editorial revision modernizes and renews Flaubert's stylistic masterpiece. In addition, Cohen has added to the Second Edition a new introduction, substantially new annotations, and twenty-one striking images, including photographs and engravings, that... Read Full Overview

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A literary event: one of the most celebrated novels ever written, in a magnificent new translation Seven years ago, the incomparable Lydia Davis brought us an award-winning, rapturously reviewed new translation of Marcel Proust's Swann's Way that was hailed as "clear and true... Read Full Overview

Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. He is known especially for his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. Madame Bovary originally published as Madame Bovary:... Read Full Overview

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Both embodiment and victim of the self-satisfied nineteenth-century French bourgeoisie, Emma Bovary lives in pursuit of something more, like the world depicted in the romance novels that have come to define her. Emma is oblivious to the realities of life, and her romantic delusions... Read Full Overview

Madame Bovary (full French title: Madame Bovary. Mœurs de province) is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Madame Bovary takes place in provincial... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert is a timeless masterpiece that delves into the complexities of love, desire, and the pursuit of an ideal life. Immerse yourself in Flaubert's exquisite prose and follow the tragic journey of Emma Bovary in this captivating novel.