For this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Flaubert invented a paradoxically original and wholly modern style. His heroine, Emma Bovary, a bored provincial housewife, abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair. A succès de scandale in its day, Madame Bovary remains a powerful and scintillating novel.
Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics) by FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE is an English book published by Penguin Books, listed under Fiction & Literature, Literature.
Book details
| Title | Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics) |
| Author | FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE |
| Language | English |
| Cover | Soft Cover |
| ISBN | 9780140449129 |
| Publisher | Penguin Books |
