Madame Bovary (Bantam Classics)

Bantam Classics, 1972. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7?" tall. Paperback in Very Good Condition. Translated by Lowell Bair. Edited and with an Introduction by Leo Bersani. First published 1857. Includes a complete supplement of essays and critical comments: Biographical Sketch; Critical Supplement-The Novelist and His Art; Contemporary Views: Emile Zola, Guy de Maupassant, and Henry James; Modern Critical Comment: Henry Levin, Erich Auerbach, Victor Brombert, Martin Turnell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Gedrard Genette. Cover is clean and unmarked, trace wear to cover edges, no creases; glued binding is tight. Pages quite clean no markings, toned. The novel's focus is on the life of an ordinary woman, Madame Bovary, wife of a provincial doctor in France mid-19th century. 19th Century French Literature. A story of a beautiful young woman who marries a luckless and loutish country doctor, set in mid-1800s. She attempts to escape her narrow life through a series of passionate affairs. Her recklessness comes back to haunt her and she finds herself in a desperate fight for existence. Flaubert's depiction of adultery and sinfulness caused a national scandal when this book was first published in 1856. He was put on trial for offending public morality. Today it is considered a masterpiece of realist literature. Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880). 424 pages. 4.2 x 6.75 inches. 1972, Bantam Classics, New York, New York, USA.