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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The bored wife of a bumbling provincial physician, Emma seeks to escape from the tedium of her life with romantic fantasies and adulterous affairs, but is ultimately doomed to disillusionment. Unable to come to terms with reality, Emma is a figure at once noble and banal, tragic and absurd. With her wre ...Show more
Madame Bovary by FLAUBERT GUSTAVE
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
This is a major new translation of one of the most popular classics of all time, now in a gorgeous deluxe edition. 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 passio ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary is one of the most influential - and scandalous - novels of the nineteenth century. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Geoffrey Wall, with a preface by Michele Roberts.Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a medio ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Fiction
VINTAGE CLASSICS FRENCH SERIES- stunning flapped paperback editions showcasing the bestselling, most acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century.Madame Bovary is one of the greatest, most beguiling novels ever written.Emma Bovary is an avid reader of sentimental novels; brought up on a Normandy fa ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classics | Series: Clothbound Classics
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 a ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Madame Bovary is the debut Novel of French writer: Gustave Flaubert. published in 1856. The character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life.
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 a ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Beautiful Emma Rouault yearns for the life of wealth, passion and romance she has encountered in popular sentimental fiction, and when her doctor, the well-meaning but awkward and unremarkable Charles Bovary, begins to pay her attention, she imagines that she may be granted her wish. However, after thei ...Show more
Madame Bovary (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Madame BovaryBy Gustave FlaubertEmma, the main heroine of the novel Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, is bored with the emptiness and ordinariness of the provincial life, so she engages in the extramarital affair hoping to change the circumstances. After the book had been published, the author and two ...Show more
Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Would this misery go on forever? Was there no escape? And yet she was every bit as good as all those other women who led happy lives!' When Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary she imagines she will pass into the life of luxury and passion that she reads about in sentimental novels and women's magazines ...Show more
Memoirs of a Madman and November by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Fiction
One of Flaubert's earliest writings, but published only after his death, Memoirs of a Madman presents us with a young man as he reflects - alternating between musings on the present and memories of the past - on the years that have brought him to "madness", recalling the innocence of his boyhood, the fi ...Show more
Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classics
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), French novelist and short story writer, was considered to be a master of style, obsessively devoted to finding the right word ("le mot juste"), in every piece of literature he produced. As a child he expressed great imagination and took in all the stories he could from his ...Show more