Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary
Summary
Flaubert's heroine, Emma, is a bored provincial housewife who abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair. The book created a sensation when it was published - the author was prosecuted for offending public morals and later aquitted.
Madame Bovary Summary
About Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert (1821-77) works include SALAMBO (1862), SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION (1869), THE TEMPTATION OF ST. ANTHONY (1874), THREE TALES (1877), the posthumously published BOUVARD AND PECUCHET (1881) and the remarkable volumes of his correspondence. Geoffrey Wall teaches at the University of York and works, by night, as a translator, a literary biographer, a travel writer and a journalist.
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GOR005150277
9780140448184
0140448187
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
20020425
320
N/A
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