Madame Bovary

Name: Madame Bovary
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ISBN: 9780679736363

ISBN-10: 0679736360

ISBN-13: 9780679736363

Edition: 1985

Authors: Gustave. Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller

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For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for "offenses against morality and religion." What shocks us today about Flaubert's devastatingly realized tale of a young woman destroyed by the reckless pursuit of her romantic dreams is its pure artistry: the poise of its narrative structure, the opulence of its prose (marvelously captured in the English translation of Francis Steegmuller), and its creation of a world whose minor figures are as vital as its doomed heroine. In reading Madame Bovary, one experiences a work that remains genuinely revolutionary almost a century and a half after its…

Book details

List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/14/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.19" wide x 7.98" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English