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Madame Bovary : patterns of provincial life
—Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880.
1957

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The wife of a dull country doctor, trapped in a soul-smothering bourgeois village, Emma Bovary seeks passion and fulfillment in scandalous liasons. For a time she is happy; she feels she is living the glamorous life she's always longed for. But when reality intrudes--when adultery becomes as bleak and tedious as her marriage--Emma is shattered. Overwhelmed by loneliness and debt, she embraces her final tragic fantasy in one of the most stunning scenes in all literature.

Item Details

ISBN:

  • 9781848373211
  • 9780679420316
  • 9780140449129
  • 1853260789
  • 0679420312

Description: 1 volume (various pagings)

Other Title: Madame Bovary

Notes:

  • First published in 1857.
  • 1949 International Collector's Library edition is a new translation by Joan Charles ; illustrated by Ben Stahl.
  • 1982 Greenwich House edition is translated by Alan Russell ; illustrated with etchings by Albert Fourie.
  • 1992 Penguin trade paperback edition is translated with an introduction by Geoffrey Wall.
  • 1993 Everyman's Library hardcover edition has an introduction by Victor Brombert.
  • 2001 Signet Classic paperback edition is translated by Mildred Marmur with a new introduction by Robin Morgan. The trial of Madame Bovary translation by Evelyn Gendel.
  • 2003 Penguin Classics paperback edition is translated by Geoffrey Wall with a new preface by Michèle Roberts and further reading.
  • 2009 Arcturus Publishing edition has an introduction by Brian Busby.
  • 2010 Penguin Classics trade paperback edition is a new translation by Lydia Davis.
  • Winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize.

LCCN: 57005214 //r83

Control Number: 1040792

Publisher: New York : Modern Library, [1957], c1950.
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