Madame Bovary

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ß6adame SBovarj
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Bored and unhappy in a Hfeless marriage, Emma Bovary yeams to escape from the dull circumstances of provincial life. Married to a simple-minded but indulgent country doctor, she takes one lover, then another, hastens her husband's financial ruin with her extravagance, and eventually commits suicide.
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1888) was brought to trial by the French D
government on the grounds of this novel's alleged immorality, <
but unlike his less fortunate contemporary, Baudelaire, he cl
narrowly escaped conviction. a.
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Flaubert's powerful and deeply moving examination of the moral degeneration of a middle-class Frenchwoman is universally regarded as one of the landmarks of 19th-century fiction. It is bj
reproduced here, complete and unabridged, in the classic Ö
translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, daughter of Karl Marx. w"
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Unabridged, slightly corrected Dover (1996) republication of the translation first published by Vizetelly... Tovább

Fülszöveg

ß6adame SBovarj
^ustaveSFlaubert
Bored and unhappy in a Hfeless marriage, Emma Bovary yeams to escape from the dull circumstances of provincial life. Married to a simple-minded but indulgent country doctor, she takes one lover, then another, hastens her husband's financial ruin with her extravagance, and eventually commits suicide.
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1888) was brought to trial by the French D
government on the grounds of this novel's alleged immorality, <
but unlike his less fortunate contemporary, Baudelaire, he cl
narrowly escaped conviction. a.
o-
Flaubert's powerful and deeply moving examination of the moral degeneration of a middle-class Frenchwoman is universally regarded as one of the landmarks of 19th-century fiction. It is bj
reproduced here, complete and unabridged, in the classic Ö
translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, daughter of Karl Marx. w"
a o
Unabridged, slightly corrected Dover (1996) republication of the translation first published by Vizetelly and Company, London, 1886. New introductory Note. 256pp. SYie x SYi. Paperbound.
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