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Madame Bovary

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By Gustave Flaubert
Introduction by Robin Morgan
Afterword by Frederick Brown
Translated by Mildred Marmur

By Gustave Flaubert
Introduction by Robin Morgan
Afterword by Frederick Brown
Translated by Mildred Marmur

By Gustave Flaubert
Introduction by Robin Morgan
Translated by Mildred Marmur

By Gustave Flaubert
Introduction by Robin Morgan
Translated by Mildred Marmur

By Gustave Flaubert
Read by Claire Bloom
Introduction by Robin Morgan
Translated by Mildred Marmur

By Gustave Flaubert
Read by Claire Bloom
Introduction by Robin Morgan
Translated by Mildred Marmur

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Dec 31, 2012 | ISBN 9780451418500

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Dec 01, 2001 | ISBN 9781101143773

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    About Madame Bovary

    Both embodiment and victim of the self-satisfied nineteenth-century French bourgeoisie, Emma Bovary lives in pursuit of something more, like the world depicted in the romance novels that have come to define her. Emma is oblivious to the realities of life, and her romantic delusions and search for transcendence through sex, money, and social position serve only to drive the increasingly troubled woman into an irreversible moral, emotional, and spiritual decline. That the author depicted his heroine in neutral terms, without condemnation, resulted in obscenity charges from the French courts, which likened the “lascivious” Madame Bovary’s “lack of restraint” to “a woman who throws off all garments.” Exactly. Madame Bovary remains one of the most daring and liberating novels ever written.

    Includes The Trial of Madame Bovary

    Translated by Mildred Marmur

    With an Introduction by Robin Morgan and a New Afterword by Frederick Brown

    About Madame Bovary

    For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for "offenses against morality and religion." What shocks us today about Flaubert’s devastatingly realized tale of a young woman destroyed by the reckless pursuit of her romantic dreams is its pure artistry: the poise of its narrative structure, the opulence of its prose (marvelously captured in the English translation of Francis Steegmuller), and its creation of a world whose minor figures are as vital as its doomed heroine. In reading Madame Bovary, one experiences a work that remains genuinely revolutionary almost a century and a half after its creation.

    About Madame Bovary

    For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for "offenses against morality and religion." What shocks us today about Flaubert’s devastatingly realized tale of a young woman destroyed by the reckless pursuit of her romantic dreams is its pure artistry: the poise of its narrative structure, the opulence of its prose (marvelously captured in the English translation of Francis Steegmuller), and its creation of a world whose minor figures are as vital as its doomed heroine. In reading Madame Bovary, one experiences a work that remains genuinely revolutionary almost a century and a half after its creation.

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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 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

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Mass Market Paperback | $5.95
    Published by Signet
    Dec 31, 2012 | 464 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-3/4 | ISBN 9780451418500

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Signet
    Dec 01, 2001 | 448 Pages | ISBN 9781101143773

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $9.00
    Published by Penguin Audio
    Sep 17, 2008 | 174 Minutes | ISBN 9781598876949
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    Praise

    “Possibly the most beautifully written book ever composed [and] the most important novel of the century.”—Frank O’Connor

    “Perhaps we identify with Emma because we too feel an emptiness at the center of things—an emptiness we try to fill with books, with fantasies, with sex, with things. Her yearning is nothing more or less than the human condition in the modern world. Her search for ecstasy is ours.”—Erica Jong

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