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Madame Bovary : provincial lives / Gustave Flaubert ; translated with an introduction by Geoffrey Wall.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Publisher: 2003Publisher: New York : Penguin Books USA Inc. 1992, 2003Description: xlii, 335 pages 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0140449124
  • 9780140449129
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 843/.8 21
LOC classification:
  • PQ2246.M2
Other classification:
  • He.01
Summary: Nineteenth-century novel about Emma Bovary, the wife of a provincial doctor who seeks to escape her boredom by indulging in romantic fantasies and adulterous affairs.
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Book Biblioteket HKR Skönlitteratur Roman Eng Flaubert Available 11156000119867
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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'.

Nineteenth-century novel about Emma Bovary, the wife of a provincial doctor who seeks to escape her boredom by indulging in romantic fantasies and adulterous affairs.

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