Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary Patterns of Provincial Life - Vintage Classics

1st Vintage classics Edition

Paperback (14 Dec 1991)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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 creation.

Book information

ISBN: 9780679736363
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint: Vintage Books
Pub date:
Edition: 1st Vintage classics Edition
DEWEY: 843.8
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 411
Weight: 370g
Height: 132mm
Width: 202mm
Spine width: 26mm