Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

The award-winning, nationally bestselling translation, by Lydia Davis, of one of the world’s most celebrated novels

“The best English version by far, because its deadpan reminds us that the book is both a great realist novel and a satire of realism.” —Merve Emre, The New Yorker

Emma Bovary is the original desperate housewife. Beautiful but bored, she spends lavishly on clothes and on her home and embarks on two disappointing affairs in an effort to make her life everything she believes it sho...