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Madame Bovary

By Gustave Flaubert
Introduction by Geoffrey Wall
Preface by Michele Roberts
Translated by Geoffrey Wall
Notes by Geoffrey Wall

By Gustave Flaubert
Introduction by Geoffrey Wall
Preface by Michele Roberts
Translated by Geoffrey Wall
Notes by Geoffrey Wall

By Gustave Flaubert
Illustrated by Coralie Bickford-Smith
Introduction by Geoffrey Wall
Preface by Michele Roberts
Translated by Geoffrey Wall

By Gustave Flaubert
Illustrated by Coralie Bickford-Smith
Introduction by Geoffrey Wall
Preface by Michele Roberts
Translated by Geoffrey Wall

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Dec 31, 2002 | ISBN 9780140449129

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May 26, 2015 | ISBN 9780141394671

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    About Madame Bovary

    The notorious and celebrated novel that established modern realism
     
    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 succès de scandale in its day, Madame Bovary remains a powerful and scintillating novel.

    This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes and an introduction by Geoffrey Wall. It includes a preface by Michele Roberts. 

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    About Madame Bovary

    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 devastating consequences. 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.” One of the greatest novels of the 19th century, Flaubert’s torrid debut lives on in Geoffrey Wall’s brilliant translation.  This edition features an introduction by Wall, and a preface on Emma Bovary’s femininity and modernity by novelist Michèle Roberts.

    Part of Penguin’s beautiful hardcover Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

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    About Gustave Flaubert

    Gustave Flaubert grew up in Rouen, France, and did not leave his birth city until he was 19 when he went to study law in Paris. After three years, however, Flaubert abandoned law and began writing. His first finished work was… More about Gustave Flaubert

    About Gustave Flaubert

    Gustave Flaubert grew up in Rouen, France, and did not leave his birth city until he was 19 when he went to study law in Paris. After three years, however, Flaubert abandoned law and began writing. His first finished work was… More about Gustave Flaubert

    About Coralie Bickford-Smith

    Coralie Bickford-Smith is an award-winning designer at Penguin Books, where she has created several highly acclaimed series designs. She studied typography at Reading University and lives in London.

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction | Romance

    Paperback | $13.00
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Dec 31, 2002 | 384 Pages | ISBN 9780140449129

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction | Romance

    Hardcover | $24.00
    Published by Penguin Classics
    May 26, 2015 | 384 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780141394671
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    "Madame Bovary is like the railroad stations erected in its epoch: graceful, even floral, but cast of iron." — John Updike

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