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Madame Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life
by Flaubert, Gustave
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0140445269
- ISBN 13
- 9780140445268
- Seller
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About This Item
Penguin Classics, London, 1992. Reprint. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. Illustrator: John Austen. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 292 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing present other than edges of the text block.. Edges slightly foxed. The book has been read and carries some marks and creases. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. The notorious and celebrated novel that established modern realism. 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 Bovary remains a powerful and scintillating novel.This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes and an introduction by Geoffrey Wall. It includes a preface by Michele Roberts. Hart Illustrated Edition Illustrator: John Austen. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; France; 19th century; Literature, Literary, Poetry & Drama. ISBN: 0140445269. ISBN/EAN: 9780140445268. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10136. . 9780140445268
Synopsis
Madame Bovary is Gustave Flaubert's first novel and considered his masterpiece. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Though the basic plot is rather simple, even archetypal, the novel's true art lies in its details and hidden patterns.
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10136
- Title
- Madame Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life
- Author
- Flaubert, Gustave
- Illustrator
- John Austen
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140445269
- ISBN 13
- 9780140445268
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- BZDB137 gustave flaubert, madame bovary, french, literature, illustrated, Fiction; France; 19th century; Literature, Literary, Poetry & Drama. John Austen Unbranded ISBN: 0140445269 EAN: 9780140445268 Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary: A Story of Prov
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- Text Block
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- Reprint
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- Foxed
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- Fine
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- Spine
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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