![Madame Bovary](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/f/927/263/9781587263927.OL.0.m.jpg)
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Madame Bovary Hardcover - 2006
by Flaubert, Gustave
- Used
Description
Similar copies are shown below.
Summary
Set amid the stifling atmosphere of nineteenth-century bourgeois France, Madame Bovary is at once an unsparing depiction of a woman's gradual corruption and a savagely ironic study of human shallowness and stupidity. Neither Emma, nor her lovers, nor Homais, the man of science, escapes the author's searing castigation; and it is the book's final profound irony that only Charles, Emma's oxlike, eternally deceived husband, emerges with a measure of human grace through his stubborn and selfless love. With its rare formal perfection, Madame Bovary represents, as Frank O'Connor has declared, "possibly the most beautifully written book ever composed; undoubtedly the most beautifully written novel...a book that invites superlatives...the most important novel of the century."
First line
We were in class when the head-master came in, followed by a "new fellow," not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a large desk.
Details
- Title Madame Bovary
- Author Flaubert, Gustave
- Binding Hardcover
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Publisher Ann Arbor Editions LLC, New York
- Date July 14, 2006
- Bookseller's Inventory # 18686024-6
- ISBN 9781587263927