Madame Bovary (Alma Classics Evergreens) (Alma Evergreens): Newly Translated and Annotated (Alma Classics Evergreens) - Softcover

Gustave Flaubert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184749322X ISBN 13: 9781847493224

Publisher: Alma Classics, 2013

Synopsis

Part of Alma Classics Evergreen series, this new translation of Madame Bovary includes pictures, notes and an extensive section on Flaubert's life and work. 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 their marriage, Emma soon becomes frustrated with the boredom of provincial life and finds herself seeking escape and contemplating adultery. As Emma's efforts to make a reality of her fantasies become more dangerous, both she and those around her must face the shattering consequences of her actions. Causing widespread scandal when it was published in 1857, Madame Bovary is Gustave Flaubert's masterpiece and one of the landmark works of nineteenth-century realist fiction. ABOUT THE SERIES: Alma Evergreens is a series of popular classics. All the titles in the series are provided with an extensive critical apparatus, extra reading material including a section of photographs and notes. The texts are based on the most authoritative edition (or collated from the most authoritative editions or manuscripts) and edited using a fresh, intelligent editorial approach. With an emphasis on the production, editorial and typographical values of a book, Alma Classics aspires to revitalize the whole experience of reading the classics.

About this title

Review:

"It has a perfection that not only stamps it, but that makes it stand almost alone." --Henry James

"Madame Bovary is like the railroad stations erected in its epoch: graceful, even floral, but cast of iron." --John Updike

From the Author:

Born in Rouen in northern France, Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 80) is regarded as one of the greatest novelists of all time. He is best known for his works Madame Bovary and Sentimental Education, and for his stylistic perfectionism.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alma Classics
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 184749322X
• ISBN 13: 9781847493224
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352