Book: Madame Bovary: Provincial Lives This exquisite novel tells the story of one of the most compelling heroines in modern literature--Emma Bovary. Unhappily married to a devoted, clumsy provincial doctor, Emma revolts against the ordinariness of her life by pursuing voluptuous dreams of ecstasy and love.
For this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Flaubert invented a paradoxically original and wholly modern style. His heroine, Emma Bovary, a bored provincial housewife, abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair. A succA]s de scandale in its day, "Madame Bovary" remains a powerful and arousing novel.
Translated with an Introduction by Geoffrey Wall
New Preface by MichA]le Roberts
Details of Book: Madame Bovary: Provincial Lives Book: Madame Bovary: Provincial Lives
Author: Gustave Flaubert, Geoffrey Wall, Michele Roberts
ISBN: 0140449124
ISBN-13: 9780140449129
, 978-0140449129
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: 2003/01/01
Publisher: Penguin Group Usa
Number of Pages: 335
Language: English