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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Category: Classics
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 a ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Drop Caps
From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers--featuring cover art by type superstar Jessica Hische It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and gift-worthy hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a g ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert; Adam Thorpe (Translator)
Category: Classics
Madame BovaryBy Gustave FlaubertEmma, the main heroine of the novel Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, is bored with the emptiness and ordinariness of the provincial life, so she engages in the extramarital affair hoping to change the circumstances. After the book had been published, the author and two ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling. Castigated for offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm. For Flaubert's contemporaries, the fascination came from the novelist's meticulous account of pro ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library 140
Gustave Flaubert's first published novel 'Madame Bovary' has been enjoyed by readers around the world for over 150 years. A fantastically well-written novel, it is considered by many to be Flaubert's masterpiece, and the author himself confessed to be a perfectionist when it came to the details. It was ...Show more
Madame Bovary by FLAUBERT GUSTAVE
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
This is a major new translation of one of the most popular classics of all time, now in a gorgeous deluxe edition. 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 passio ...Show more
Madame Bovary (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Gustave Flaubert
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Madame BovaryBy Gustave FlaubertEmma, the main heroine of the novel Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, is bored with the emptiness and ordinariness of the provincial life, so she engages in the extramarital affair hoping to change the circumstances. After the book had been published, the author and two ...Show more
Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners by Gustave Flaubert
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Would this misery go on forever? Was there no escape? And yet she was every bit as good as all those other women who led happy lives!' When Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary she imagines she will pass into the life of luxury and passion that she reads about in sentimental novels and women's magazines ...Show more
Madame Bovary (Word Cloud Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics
Gustave Flaubert is arguably one of the greatest novelists of all time. His first novel, Madame Bovary, was published in 1856 and is considered a literary masterpiece by critics and scholars. His skillful wordsmithing combined with the scandal surrounding the novel launched it into notoriety. The story ...Show more
Memoirs of a Madman and November by Gustave Flaubert
Category: Classics
One of Flaubert's earliest writings, but published only after his death, Memoirs of a Madman presents us with a young man as he reflects - alternating between musings on the present and memories of the past - on the years that have brought him to "madness", recalling the innocence of his boyhood, the fi ...Show more
Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert
Category: Classics
An epic story of lust, cruelty, and sensuality, this historical novel is set in Carthage in the days following the First Punic War with Rome.