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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for "offenses against morality and religion." What shocks us today about Flaubert's devastatingly realized tale of a young woman destroyed by the reckless pursuit of her romantic dreams is its pure artistry: the poise of its narrative structure, the opulence of its prose (marvelously captured in the English translation of Francis Steegmuller), and its creation of a world whose minor figures are as vital as its doomed heroine. In reading Madame Bovary, one experiences a work that remains genuinely revolutionary almost a century and a half after its creation.

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ISBN 13	9780679736363
ISBN 10	0679736360
Title	Madame Bovary
Author	Gustave Flaubert
Series	Vintage Classics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1991-12-14
Number of pages	432
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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