Flaubert Gustave - Madame Bovary - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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 affairs bring her disappointment and the consequences are devastating. Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: Madame Bovary c'est moi'.
Title: Madame Bovary
Author(s): Flaubert Gustave
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780141394671
Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/26/2015
Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Category: Classic Fiction