Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert ; translated with an introduction and notes by Geoffrey Wall ; preface by Michle Roberts.
Series: Penguin classicsPublication details: London : Penguin, 2003.Description: xlii, 335 p. ;20 cmISBN:- 9780140449129
- Madame Bovary
- 843.8
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| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | FLA | Available | 039633 |
"Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent devourer 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 when real life continues to fail to live up to her romantic expectations 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, c7F 19est moi'." -- BOOK JACKET.
This translation first published: 1992. Translated from the French.
