Madame Bovary by Flaubert, Gustave - 1964

Signet Classics, 1964. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York. 1979. Signet/New American Library. Reprinted Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers With Tear Mark on Front Cover. 0451514874. A new translation by Mildred Marmur. Foreword by Mary McCarthy. 405 pages. paperback. CE1487. keywords: Signet Classic Paperback. FROM THE PUBLISHER - 'She is a very ordinary middle - class woman, with banal expectations of life and an urge to dominate her surroundings. Her character is remarkable only for an unusual deficiency of natural feeling.' Thus Mary McCarthy, in her memorable Foreword to this Signet Classic edition, describes Emma Bovary, whose ill - starred pursuit of tawdry romantic dreams shapes Flaubert's great novel. Set amid the stifling atmosphere of nineteenth - century bourgeois France, MADAME BOVARY is at once an unsparing depiction of a woman's gradual corruption and a savagely ironic study of human shallowness and stupidity. Neither Emma, nor her lovers, nor Homais, the 'man of science,' escapes the… Read More

Signet Classics, 1964-06-01. Mass Market Paperback. Good. PAPERBACK - GOOD Condition - Cover has some wear, pages clean and in good condition inside. Ships same or next business day.