Madame Bovary
Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-18801992
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The subject is French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, which Flaubert invented a modern style to match. Emma, a bored provincial housewife, abandons her husband Charles to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair. The author also wrote "Sentimental Education".
Main title:
Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert ; translated with an introduction by Geoffrey Wall.
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Imprint:
London : Penguin, 1992.
Collation:
xxv,291p. ; 20cm.
ISBN:
9780140445268 (pbk)
Dewey class:
843.8
Language:
EnglishFrench
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BRN:
1342122