Madame Bovary: Popular Penguins
Author: Flaubert, Gustave
ISBN: 9780141045153
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 29 Jun 2009
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback / softback
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 charged novel caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857.
ISBN: 9780141045153
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 29 Jun 2009
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback / softback
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 charged novel caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857.
