Madame Bovary : patterns of provincial life

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The wife of a dull country doctor, trapped in a soul-smothering bourgeois village, Emma Bovary seeks passion and fulfillment in scandalous liasons. For a time she is happy; she feels she is living the glamorous life she's always longed for. But when reality intrudes--when adultery becomes as bleak and tedious as her marriage--Emma is shattered. Overwhelmed by loneliness and debt, she embraces her final tragic fantasy in one of the most stunning s...

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ISBN:

9781848373211
9780679420316
9780140449129
1853260789
0679420312

Description:

1 volume (various pagings)

Other Title:

Madame Bovary

Notes:

First published in 1857
1949 International Collector's Library edition is a new translation by Joan Charles ; illustrated by Ben Stahl
1982 Greenwich House edition is translated by Alan Russell ; illustrated with etchings by Albert Fourie
1992 Penguin trade paperback edition is translated with an introduction by Geoffrey Wall
1993 Everyman's Library hardcover edition has an introduction by Victor Brombert
2001 Signet Classic paperback edition is translated by Mildred Marmur with a new introduction by Robin Morgan. The trial of Madame Bovary translation by Evelyn Gendel
2003 Penguin Classics paperback edition is translated by Geoffrey Wall with a new preface by Michèle Roberts and further reading
2009 Arcturus Publishing edition has an introduction by Brian Busby
2010 Penguin Classics trade paperback edition is a new translation by Lydia Davis
Winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize

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57005214 //r83

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1040792

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