Madame Bovary
, by Flaubert, Gustave; Wall, Geoffrey; Roberts, Michele; Wall, Geoffrey; Wall, Geoffrey- ISBN: 9780140449129 | 0140449124
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 12/31/2002
For this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Flaubert invented a paradoxically original and wholly modern style. His heroine, Emma Bovary, a bored provincial housewife, abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair. A succès de scandale in its day, Madame Bovaryremains a powerful and arousing novel. Translated with an Introduction by Geoffrey Wall New Preface by Michèle Roberts