Madame Bovary
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark of nineteenth-century French literature, Madame Bovary chronicles the life of Emma Bovary, a provincial doctor's wife whose romantic idealism and desperate hunger for passion drive her into a series of ruinous love affairs and extravagant spending. Gustave Flaubert's 1857 masterpiece presents a devastating portrait of bourgeois mediocrity and the destructive power of illusion, rendered in prose of extraordinary precision and beauty. The novel argues, with cool irony and unflinching psychological realism, that the gap between romantic fantasy and mundane reality can be fatal. Scandalous upon publication and the subject of an obscenity trial, it stands today as one of the greatest novels ever written and a foundational text of literary realism.
Author: Flaubert
Format: Paperback
Published: 1950, Penguin Classics
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark of nineteenth-century French literature, Madame Bovary chronicles the life of Emma Bovary, a provincial doctor's wife whose romantic idealism and desperate hunger for passion drive her into a series of ruinous love affairs and extravagant spending. Gustave Flaubert's 1857 masterpiece presents a devastating portrait of bourgeois mediocrity and the destructive power of illusion, rendered in prose of extraordinary precision and beauty. The novel argues, with cool irony and unflinching psychological realism, that the gap between romantic fantasy and mundane reality can be fatal. Scandalous upon publication and the subject of an obscenity trial, it stands today as one of the greatest novels ever written and a foundational text of literary realism.