Madame Bovary (Wordsworth Classics)

Type

Book

Authors

Gustave Flaubert

ISBN 10

1853260789

ISBN 13

9781853260780

Tags

Classics, Psychological, Literary, France, Adultery, Middle class, Physicians' spouses, Married women, Suicide victims, Manners and customs, Bovary, Emma (Fictitious character)

Abstract

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.

Biblio Notes

Genre/Form: Novela
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Gustave Flaubert; Roger Clark
ISBN: 9781853260780 1853260789
OCLC Number: 970512485
Description: 277 p. ; 19 cm
Other Titles: Madame Bovary.
Responsibility: Gustave Flaubert ; introduction and notes by Roger Clark.

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