by Gustave Flaubert · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140449129
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«Madame Bovary» is the classic novel by Gustave Flaubert, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (335 pages, in English).
Emma Bovary, wife of a rural doctor, feels stifled by provincial life and longs for a more passionate existence. Her attempts to escape through love affairs and excessive spending drag her into tragedy. The work is a critical portrait of the French bourgeoisie and of romantic expectations, controversial since its publication.
English edition translated by Geoffrey Wall, with an introduction by the translator and a preface by Michèle Roberts. Translation first published in 1992.
For readers interested in classics of European literature and nineteenth-century realism, as well as psychological portraits of female characters.
Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.
