Madame Bovary
Reissued, 19th printing
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Author
Contributions
- Wall, Geoffrey, 1950- - Contributor
Publication
2003 - Penguin Books, London, England, England
Language
English
Word Count
83,750 words, Guess
Page Count
335 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveisbn_9780140449129
- Internet Archivemadamebovaryprov0000flau_c0r9
- ISBN-139780140449129
- ISBN-100140449124
- GooglewmLhxgEACAAJ
Classifications
- DDC843.8
- LCCPQ2246.M2 E5 2003
Description
Charles Bovary, médecin de campagne, veuf d'une mégère, fait lors d'une tournée la rencontre du père Rouault et de sa fille, Emma. Après leur mariage, Emma reste insatisfaite et rêve d'une nouvelle vie. Son premier amant lui donne le goût du luxe et fait miroiter un avenir à deux avant de l'abandonner. Une fois remise, Emma continue à faire de folles dépenses, qui peu à peu la mènent à la ruine et au déshonneur. (Résumé par Nadine) ---------- See also: - [Madame Bovary: 1/2](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL29255465W/Madame_Bovary_1_2) - [Madame Bovary: 2/2](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL29255459W/Madame_Bovary_2_2) ---------- Also contained in: - [The Best Known Works of Gustave Flaubert][1] - [Pages choisies des grands écrivains](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15580389W) [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL893933W/The_best_known_works_of_Gustave_Flaubert
Description
'Oh, why, dear God, did I marry him?' 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, c'est moi.' This modern translation by Flaubert's biographer, Geoffrey Wall, retains all the delicacy and precision of the French original. The edition also contains a preface by the novelist Michèle Roberts. --back cover
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- Penguin Classics
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