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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828146003321

Autore

Flaubert Gustave <1821-1880, >

Titolo

Madame Bovary : provincial lives / / Gustave Flaubert ; translated with an introduction and notes by Geoffrey Wall ; preface by Michele Roberts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Open Road Media, , 2014

ISBN

1-4532-6518-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (483 p.)

Disciplina

843/.8

Soggetti

Middle class - France

Suicide victims

Physicians' spouses

Married women

Adultery

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; PART I; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; PART II; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten; Chapter Eleven; Chapter Twelve; Chapter Thirteen; Chapter Fourteen; Chapter Fifteen; PART III; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten; Chapter Eleven; Copyright Page

Sommario/riassunto

One of the world's most celebrated novels, soon to be a major motion picture starring Mia WasikowskaThis indelible portrait of a beautiful woman's aching lust for more-more romance, more glamour, more fun-and her resulting tragic demise, is widely considered one of the finest novels ever written. Flaubert's refusal to condemn his adulterous heroine, a woman trapped as much by circumstance as by her own boundless desires, scandalized nineteenth-century France and resulted in a trial on charges of obscenity. But it is the beauty of the novel's prose, the great care it takes with characters major