Madame Bovary

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 1996
Edition: Reprint

Description: 247 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Bored and unhappy in a lifeless marriage, Emma Bovary yearns to escape from the dull circumstances of provincial life. Married to a simple-minded but indulgent country doctor, she takes one lover, then another, hastens her husbands financial ruin with her extravagance, and eventually commits suicide. Gustave Flaubert (1821“1880) was brought to trial by the French government on the grounds of this novels alleged immorality, but unlike his less fortunate contemporary, Baudelaire, he narrowly escaped conviction. Flauberts powerful and deeply moving examination of the moral degeneration of a middle-class Frenchwoman is universally regarded as one of the landmarks of 19th-century fiction. It is reproduced here, complete and unabridged, in the classic translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, daughter of Karl Marx.

ISBN: 9780486292571