Madame Bovary: Gustave Flaubert (Macmillan Collector's Library, 128)

Madame Bovary: Gustave Flaubert (Macmillan Collector's Library, 128)

by Gustave Flaubert (Author), Gustave Flaubert (Author), Peter Harness (Introduction)

Synopsis

Beautiful Emma Bovary dreams of love and riches but her marriage to Charles, a dull country doctor, is far from satisfying. In an attempt to escape the narrow confines of her life, she embarks on a series of passionate affairs, hoping to find the romantic ideal she always dreamed about in the arms of other men, but it soon becomes clear that she is hurtling towards tragedy . . .

Gustave Flaubert's daring portrait of adultery caused a national scandal when Madame Bovary was first published, and this masterpiece of realist literature has lost none of its impact today.

This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Madame Bovary is translated by Eleanor Marx Aveling and features an afterword by the playwright, screenwriter and actor, Peter Harness.

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much-loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

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More Information

Format: Unabridged
Pages: 432
Edition: Main Market
Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library
Published: 21 Sep 2017

ISBN 10: 1509842888
ISBN 13: 9781509842889
Book Overview: A beautiful edition of one of the most scandalous, and most important, novels ever written.

Author Bio
Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen, France, in December 1821. The son of a surgeon, he is said to have begun writing at a very early age and attended school at the Lycee Pierre Corneille in Rouen. He moved to Paris in 1840 to study law but left intermittently to travel and, after a period of ill health, departed for good in 1846. Thereafter he devoted himself to writing and completed Madame Bovary in 1856. The novel was published to great scandal and acclaim, and Flaubert became a celebrated literary figure. His reputation was cemented with Salammbo (1862) and Sentimental Education (1869). He died in 1880, leaving his last work, Bouvard et Pecuchet, unfinished.