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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100679420312

ISBN-139780679420316

eBay Product ID (ePID)31779

Product Key Features

Original LanguageFrench

Book TitleMadame Bovary : Introduction by Victor Brombert

Number of Pages368 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicClassics, Literary, Historical

Publication Year1993

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorGustave. Flaubert

Book SeriesEveryman's Library Classics Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height2.8 in

Item Weight18.6 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN92-054294

Reviews"[ Madame Bovary is] a surprisingly romantic and deeply moving text, as well as a work of pioneering modernity. . . Flaubert's anti-heroic heroine in fact acquires a haunting nobility through her relentless quest for the absolute of experience." from the Introduction by Victor Brombert, "[Madame Bovaryis] a surprisingly romantic and deeply moving text, as well as a work of pioneering modernity. . . Flaubert's anti-heroic heroine in fact acquires a haunting nobility through her relentless quest for the absolute of experience." from the Introduction by Victor Brombert

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal843/.8

SynopsisEmma, a passionate dreamer raised in the French countryside, is ready for her life to take off when she marries the decent, dull Dr. Charles Bovary. Marriage, however, fails to live up to her expectations, which are fueled by sentimental novels, and she turns disastrously to love affairs. The story of Emma's adultery scandalized France when Madame Bovary was first published. Today, the heartbreaking story of Emma's financial ruin remains just as compelling. In Madame Bovary , his story of a shallow, deluded, unfaithful, but consistently compelling woman living in the provinces of nineteenth-century France, Gustave Flaubert invented not only the modern novel but also a modern attitude toward human character and human experience that remains with us to this day. One of the rare works of art that it would be fair to call perfect, Madame Bovary has had an incalculable influence on the literary culture that followed it. This translation, by Francis Steegmuller, is acknowledged by common consensus as the definitive English rendition of Flaubert's text.

LC Classification NumberPQ2246.M2 E5 1993b