Madame Bovary [electronic resource] : provincial manners / Gustave Flaubert ; translated by Margaret Mauldon ; with an introduction by Malcolm Bowie ; and notes by Mark Overstall.
Emma Bovary yearns for a life of luxury and passion of the kind she reads about in romantic novels. But life with her country doctor husband in the provinces is unutterably boring, and she embarks on love affairs to realize her fantasies. This new translation by Margaret Mauldon perfectly captures Flaubert's distinctive style. - ;'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 sen.
Record details
- ISBN: 0191517887 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780191517884 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780192840394 (Paper)
- ISBN: 0192840398 (Paper)
- ISBN: 9780192805492 (Cloth)
- ISBN: 0192805495 (Cloth)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxviii, 329 p.)
- Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, c2004.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Multi-User. CatMonthString:jan.13 CatBulkString:jan.10.13 |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxix]-xxv). |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction; Note on the Text; Note on the Translation; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Gustave Flaubert; MADAME BOVARY; Explanatory Notes; |
Restrictions on Access Note: | Restrictions unspecified |
Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. |
System Details Note: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 |
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription. |
Language Note: | Translated from the French. |
Action Note: | digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | Married women. Married women > France > Fiction. Manners and customs. France > Social life and customs > Fiction. France. |
Genre: | Fiction. Electronic books. |