Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
ISBN-13:
9780143106494
ISBN-10:
014310649X
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
Gustave Flaubert, Lydia Davis
Publication date:
2011
Publisher:
Penguin Classics
Format:
Paperback
384 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780143106494
ISBN-10:
014310649X
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
Gustave Flaubert, Lydia Davis
Publication date:
2011
Publisher:
Penguin Classics
Format:
Paperback
384 pages
Summary
Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (ISBN-13: 9780143106494 and ISBN-10: 014310649X), written by authors
Gustave Flaubert, Lydia Davis, was published by Penguin Classics in 2011.
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Description
The award-winning, nationally bestselling translation, by Lydia Davis, of one of the world’s most celebrated novels
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 should be. Soon heartbroken and crippled by debts, she takes drastic action, with tragic consequences for her husband and daughter. In this landmark new translation of Gustave Flaubert's masterwork, award-winning writer and translator Lydia Davis honors the nuances and particulars of Flaubert's legendary prose style, giving new life in English to the book that redefined the novel as an art form.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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 should be. Soon heartbroken and crippled by debts, she takes drastic action, with tragic consequences for her husband and daughter. In this landmark new translation of Gustave Flaubert's masterwork, award-winning writer and translator Lydia Davis honors the nuances and particulars of Flaubert's legendary prose style, giving new life in English to the book that redefined the novel as an art form.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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