Madame Bovary - Softcover

Flaubert, Gustave

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451528204 ISBN 13: 9780451528209

Publisher: Signet Classics, 2001

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An ordinary woman's unfulfilled dreams of romantic love lead her to a series of desperate acts, including adultery, in a classic novel set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century bourgeois France. Reissue.

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"Possibly the most beautifully written book ever composed [and] the most important novel of the century."--Frank O'Connor
"Perhaps we identify with Emma because we too feel an emptiness at the center of things--an emptiness we try to fill with books, with fantasies, with sex, with "things." Her yearning is nothing more or less than the human condition in the modern world. Her search for ecstasy is ours."--Erica Jong

Possibly the most beautifully written book ever composed [and] the most important novel of the century. Frank O Connor
Perhaps we identify with Emma because we too feel an emptiness at the center of things an emptiness we try to fill with books, with fantasies, with sex, with "things." Her yearning is nothing more or less than the human condition in the modern world. Her search for ecstasy is ours. Erica Jong"

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