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Madame Bovary : patterns of provincial life by Gustave Flaubert; Francis Steegmuller is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Madame Bovary : patterns of provincial life about?
For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for "offenses against morality and religion." What shocks us today about Flaubert's devastatingly realized tale of a young woman destroyed by the reckless pursuit of her romantic dreams is its pure artistry: the poise of its narrative structure, the opulence of its prose (marvelously captured in the English translation of Francis Steegmuller), and its crea
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Gustave Flaubert; Francis Steegmuller
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics/Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780804151337
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (137 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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