| #39250 in Books | Penguin Classics | 2002-12-31 | 2002-12-31 | Original language:French | PDF # 1 | 7.70 x.90 x5.10l,.97 | File type: PDF | 384 pages | Great product!||11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| The Prose is Exquisite, mining a Range of Emotions; this is no 50 Shades though, if that's what you seek in a Classic|By W Perry Hall|I've seen a bad review of this novel, with which I do not quibble, but one should note that it was given because the reader did not like the nature of the story (and possibly its ending). If you purchase this book though, with the idea that yo||"Madame Bovary is like the railroad stations erected in its epoch: graceful, even floral, but cast of iron." -- John Updike|Language Notes|Text: English (translation)| Original Language: French|
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 no...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics) | Gustave Flaubert. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
