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Genre/Form: | Domestic fiction Fiction History Love stories |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880. Madame Bovary. London ; New York : Penguin Books, ©1992 (OCoLC)607742152 Online version: Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880. Madame Bovary. London ; New York : Penguin Books, ©1992 (OCoLC)623362358 |
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Gustave Flaubert; Geoffrey Wall |
ISBN: | 0140445269 9780140445268 |
OCLC Number: | 27253016 |
Description: | xxv, 291 pages ; 21 cm. |
Series Title: | Penguin classics. |
Other Titles: | Madame Bovary. |
Responsibility: | Gustave Flaubert ; translated with an introduction by Geoffrey Wall. |
Abstract:
The subject is French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, which Flaubert invented a modern style to match. Emma, a bored provincial housewife, abandons her husband Charles to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair. The author also wrote "Sentimental Education".
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