Madame Bovary: Life in a Country Town
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Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and the consequences are devastating. Flaubert's erotically char... More
Book Information
Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
Binding | Digital (107 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 400 |
ISBN-10 | B000WMW7P2 |
Publication Date | 05/28/1998 |
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About Mark Overstall (Contributor) : Mark Overstall is credited in children's books. A published credit of Mark Overstall is Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics).
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About Terence Cave (Introduction) : Terence Cave is a published editor and a translator. Published credits of Terence Cave include Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (Oxford World's Classics), Wonder Tales: Six French Stories of Enchan... more
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About Gerard Hopkins (Translator) : Gerard Hopkins is a published translator. Published credits of Gerard Hopkins include Madame Bovary: Life in a Country Town (Oxford World's Classics).
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