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Madame Bovary: Provincial Lives - Flaubert, Gustave, and Wall, Geoffrey (Notes by), and Roberts, Michele (Preface by)
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'A masterpiece' Julian Barnes Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of a married woman's affair caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. Its heroine, Emma Bovary, is stifled by provincial life as the wife of a doctor. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and when real life continues to fail to live up to her romantic expectations, the ...

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Madame Bovary: Provincial Lives 2002, Penguin Group, London, England

ISBN-13: 9780140449129

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Madame Bovary: Provincial Lives 1993, Penguin Group, London, England

ISBN-13: 9780140445268

Revised edition

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