The subject is French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, for 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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Flaubert, Gustav

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Uk

<p>This hardcover edition is cleanly formatted for easy reading. 12 point Garamond, 1.15 spacing. After marrying Charles Bovary, an ordinary country doctor, Emma Rouault hopes to have the adventurous life of passion and intrigue that she reads about in books. However, she is disappointed with her husband and provincial life. It is anything but the romantic excitement she longs for. In her desire to fulfill her dreams she travels down a winding path of adultery and deception. When Madame Bovary appeared in La Revue de Paris in October 1856, public prosecutors attacked it for obscenity. The resulting trial in January 1857 made the story notorious. After Flaubert's acquittal in February 1857, Madame Bovary was published in book form and became an instant bestseller. The novel is considered Flaubert's masterpiece, and one of the most influential literary works in history. The British critic James Wood writes: "Flaubert('s)...influence is almost too familiar to be visible."</p>

Madame Bovary

Penguin Classic

Extrait: "Charles fut surpris de la blancheur de ses ongles. Ils étaient brillants, fins du bout, plus nettoyés que les ivoires de Dieppe, et taillés en amande. Sa main pourtant n'était pas belle, point assez pâle, peut-être, et un peu sèche aux phalanges; elle était trop longue aussi, et sans molles inflexions de lignes sur les contours"

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Charles, Joan (Translation)

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