Madame Bovary

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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, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and 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'.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780140449129
Published: January 2003

Number of pages: 384
Width: 129 mm
Height: 197 mm
Depth: 23 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd