Penguin Group Madame Bovary Paperback By Gustave Flaubert ISBN: 9780140449129

Pre-owned paperback former library book. Looks to be in very good condition. 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'. introduction by Geoffrey Wall It includes a preface by Michele Roberts. Imprint: Penguin Classics Published: 30/01/2003 ISBN: 9780140449129 Length: 384 pages