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Madame Bovary : A Story of Provincial Life

Author: Gustave Flaubert
SKU: 9780140621792

Kshs 180.00

Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and the consequences are devastating.

Flaubert’s erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: ‘Madame Bovary, c’est moi’.

  • Classifications: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945),
  • Readership:General (US: Trade)
  • Format: Paperback 352 pages

ISBN : 9780140621792

Published : 30 Mar 1995

Author : Gustave Flaubert

Main Material : Paperback

Publisher : Penguin Books Ltd

Size : 181 x 111 (mm)

Weight : 192g

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