by Gustave Flaubert · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141028866
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«Madame Bovary» is the classic novel written by Gustave Flaubert, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (448 pages, in English).
Emma Bovary, married to a provincial doctor, lives trapped between the monotony of marriage and the longing for a life full of passion and luxury. Her dissatisfaction drives her to seek refuge in lovers and excessive spending, but each attempt to escape her reality brings her closer to personal and social ruin.
This edition, with a translation by Geoffrey Wall, belongs to the Penguin Red Classics collection. The work was originally published in 1856.
Aimed at a general audience interested in nineteenth-century classics and fiction in translation.
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.
