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Madame Bovary by Flaubert, Gustave is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Madame Bovary about?
From Wikipedia Madame Bovary (1856) is Gustave Flaubert's first published novel and is considered his masterpiece. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Though the basic plot is rather simple, even archetypal, the novel's true art lies in its details and hidden patterns. Flaubert was notoriously a perfectionist about his writing and claimed always to be searching for le mot juste ("the right word"). Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon In the article: Plot summary | Characters | Setting | Style | Literary significance and reception | Adaptations Review "[Flaubert's] masterwork has been given the English translation it deserves." -Kathryn Harrison, The New York Times Book Review "[A] brilliant new translation." -Lee Siegel, The New York Observer "[Davis] has a finer ear for the natural cadences of English, in narrative and dialogue, than any of her predecessors, and there are many moments in her Madame Bovary when one pauses to admire how clean and spare a sentence seems by comparison with its earlier translated versions. . . . Onl
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- Author
- Flaubert, Gustave
- Publisher
- VIKING ADULT
- Published
- 1857
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781101143001
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Classics
- Rating
- 3.65 / 5 (74 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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