Penguin Designer Classics: Madame Bovary (Penguin Designer Classics S.) - Hardcover

Flaubert, Gustave

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0713999489 ISBN 13: 9780713999488

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

424 páginas 20 x 13 cm

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Reseña del editor:

This is one of 1000 limited-edition copies of Madame Bovary published to mark the sixtieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, with a special jacket created by the leading designer, Manolo Blahnik. 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 and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: 'Madame Bovary, c'est moi'.

Biografía del autor:

Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen in 1821. After illness interrupted a career in law, he retired to live with his widowed mother and devote himself to writing. He achieved limited success in his own lifetime, but his fame and reputation grew steadily after his death in 1880. Geoffrey Wall teaches French at the University of York. His biography of Flaubert has been translated into four languages. Michèle Roberts is the half-English half-French writer of ten highly praised novels.

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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0713999489
• ISBN 13: 9780713999488
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384