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ISBN-10: 0140449124
ISBN-13: 9780140449129
Publisher: Penguin Group
Publish Date: 12/31/2002
Dimensions: 7.74" L, 5.08" W, 0.91" H

Madame Bovary: Provincial Lives

Translator: Geoffrey Wall
Introduction by: Geoffrey Wall
Notes by: Geoffrey Wall
Preface by: Michele Roberts

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Overview

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.

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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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ISBN-10: 0140449124
ISBN-13: 9780140449129
Publisher: Penguin Group
Publish Date: 12/31/2002
Dimensions: 7.74" L, 5.08" W, 0.91" H
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