Madame Bovary (1997)

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Madame Bovary (1997)
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Madame Bovary (1997)

Gustave Flaubert
Edition year 1997
Binding Cloth
Illustrator Grau Sala
Translator Eleanor Marx Aveling
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 336
Dimensions 22.8 × 15.1 cm

Edition details

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. 2nd. edition. Translated by Eleanor Marx Aveling. 12 dry point illustrations by Grau Sala. Full red cloth with a design in black by Sala, pale brown endleaves. Dark blue slipcase. 22.8 x 15.1 cm. 336pp

About the book

Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary follows Emma Bovary, a provincial doctor's wife whose romantic expectations leave her deeply dissatisfied with the realities of marriage and small-town life. Seeking excitement and fulfilment, Emma turns to affairs, luxury and increasingly reckless spending. Flaubert's precise prose and unsentimental observation create a powerful study of illusion, desire, boredom and self-deception, making the novel one of the masterpieces of nineteenth-century realism. She seeks excitement through affairs, luxury and fantasy, gradually accumulating debts and emotional disappointment.

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