Description

For this book of French bourgeois life in most its inglorious banality, Flaubert created a paradoxically unique and totally modern-style. His heroine, Emma Bovary, a provincial housewife, abandons her husband to follow the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate romance. A succès de scandale in its evening, Madame Bovary remains a stimulating and strong book. Translated having an Introduction by Geoffrey Wall New Preface by Michèle Roberts