Order History
Premium Membership & Rewards
Help Center / FAQ
Madame Bovary
Hardcover
$26.00
By Gustave Flaubert, Geoffrey Wall (Translator), Geoffrey Wall (Introduction), Michele Roberts (Preface by), Coralie Bickford-Smith
2|
Premium Members save an extra 10% and all Members collect stamps to save with Rewards. 10 stamps = $5.Learn More
Select a store to view item availability.
Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and devastating consequences. Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857...