Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert Vintage 1/4 Leather Gilt Fine Editions Press 1948

Description: Emma Bovary is the original desperate housewife. Beautiful but bored, she is married to the provincial doctor Charles Bovary yet harbors dreams of an elegant and passionate life. Escaping into sentimental novels, she finds her fantasies dashed by the tedium of her days. Motherhood proves to be a burden; religion is only a brief distraction. In an effort to make her life everything she believes it should be, she spends lavishly on clothes and on her home and embarks on two disappointing affairs. Soon heartbroken and crippled by debts, Emma takes drastic action with tragic consequences for her husband and daughter.When published in 1857, Madame Bovary was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for its heroine. Today the novel is considered the first masterpiece of realist fiction.

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Location: Lowell, Michigan

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Binding: Leather

Language: English

Illustrator: Laszlo Matulay

Special Attributes: Illustrated, Luxury Edition

Author: Gustave Flaubert

Publisher: The World Publishing Company

Topic: Classics

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Subject: Literature & Fiction

Year Printed: 1948