| #42553 in Books | Penguin Classics | 2002-12-31 | 2002-12-31 | Original language:French | PDF # 1 | 7.70 x.90 x5.10l,.97 | File type: PDF | 384 pages | Great product!||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Take a look inside the lifestyle of France in the times of "Madame Bovary"|By Josephine May|"Madame Bovary" comes into the same category with writers like Jane Austin, and the Brontè sisters, with the difference that this story takes place in France instead of England, however one can pick out the similarities in the characteristics of social behaviour, and in the positi||"Madame Bovary is like the railroad stations erected in its epoch: graceful, even floral, but cast of iron." -- John Updike|Language Notes|Text: English (translation)| Original Language: French|
The notorious and celebrated novel that established modern realism
For this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Flaubert invented a paradoxically original and wholly modern style. His heroine, Emma Bovary, a bored provincial housewife, abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair. A succès de scandale in its day, Madame Bovary remains a powerful and scintillating no...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics) | Gustave Flaubert. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
