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Madame Bovary
by Flaubert, Gustave
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fair
- ISBN 10
- 1853260789
- ISBN 13
- 9781853260780
- Seller
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Tokyo, Japan
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About This Item
US: Wordsworth Editions, Limited, 2000. Paperback. Fair. As a provocative tale of passion and complacency, ideals and self-delusions , Madame Bovary (1857) remains a milestone in European fiction. In telling his story of Emma Bovary--a farmer's daughter who, with girlhood dreams fue lled by sensational novels, marries a provincial doctor--Flaubert inaugurat ed a literary mode that would be called Realism. But so exacting were Flaub ert's standards of authenticity that his portrayal of the breakdown of Emma 's marriage, and the frankness with which he treats her adulterous liaisons , scandalized many of his contemporaries. Yet to others, the mix of painful introspection, emotional blindness, and cynical self-seeking that distingu ishes his characters made the novel instantly recognizable as a work of gen ius. It is a novel fixed upon the idea of romance--of the need for Romance- -in the face of day-to-day banalities. It is a theme that is ironic insofar as the exquisite clarity of Flaubert's prose serves to hauntingly underlin e the futility of the heroine's ultimate tragedy.
Synopsis
Madame Bovary is Gustave Flaubert's first novel and considered his masterpiece. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Though the basic plot is rather simple, even archetypal, the novel's true art lies in its details and hidden patterns.
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- Bookseller
- Infinity Books Japan (JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000067408
- Title
- Madame Bovary
- Author
- Flaubert, Gustave
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1853260789
- ISBN 13
- 9781853260780
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions, Limited
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 2000
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classical Literature;
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- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....