Madame Bovary

Author:   Gustave Flaubert ,  Adam Thorpe ,  Adam Thorpe ,  Adam Thorpe
Publisher:   Vintage Publishing
ISBN:  

9781784877460


Pages:   384
Publication Date:   14 October 2021
Format:   Paperback
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Madame Bovary


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Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'She wanted to die, and she wanted to live in Paris.' This is the story of Emma, trapped in a disappointing marriage with a dull country doctor, she dreams for a life more like the sentimental novels she reads. In an attempt to break from the drab reality of her provincial life in Normandy, Emma takes a lover, and disaster soon follows. Greedy, delusional and selfish, the character of Emma Bovary scandalised readers from the novel's first publication in 1857, yet her magnetism is undeniable. A landmark work in modern realism, Madame Bovary vibrates with the inner life of a woman hungry for more. Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world.

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Author:   Gustave Flaubert ,  Adam Thorpe ,  Adam Thorpe ,  Adam Thorpe
Publisher:   Vintage Publishing
Imprint:   Vintage Classics
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.266kg
ISBN:  

9781784877460


ISBN 10:   1784877468
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   14 October 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Language:   English

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Magnificent. I insist everyone reads Adam Thorpe's new translation.-Vogue A handsomely bound hardback edition that perfectly befits the beautiful new translation therein... we are pretty confident that Thorpe's bash at Bovary is a contender for the new best English version out there. Sensitive and musical, and simply and wittily annotated, it's got new classic written all over it. Plus it's dressed in this really elegant embroidered design by Karen Nichols, so everything gangs up and makes it basically a must-buy.-Dazed and Confused Flaubert's 1856 novel begins with marriage and what follows is the archetypal tale of a desperate housewife-Daily Telegraph Mesmerising-Independent The most scandalous novel of all time-Playboy


Magnificent. I insist everyone reads Adam Thorpe's new translation.-Vogue A handsomely bound hardback edition that perfectly befits the beautiful new translation therein... we are pretty confident that Thorpe's bash at Bovary is a contender for the new best English version out there. Sensitive and musical, and simply and wittily annotated, it's got new classic written all over it. Plus it's dressed in this really elegant embroidered design by Karen Nichols, so everything gangs up and makes it basically a must-buy.-Stuart Hammond, Dazed and Confused Flaubert's 1856 novel begins with marriage and what follows is the archetypal tale of a desperate housewife-Daily Telegraph Mesmerising-Independent The most scandalous novel of all time-Playboy


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Gustave Flaubert (Author) Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen in 1821, the son of a distinguished surgeon and a doctor's daughter. After three unhappy years of studying law in Paris, an epileptic attack ushered him into a life of writing. Madame Bovary won instant acclaim upon book publication in 1857, but Flaubert's frank display of adultery in bourgeois France saw him go on trial for immorality, only narrowly escaping conviction. Both Salammbo (1862) and The Sentimental Education (1869) were poorly received, and Flaubert's genius was not publicly recognized until Three Tales (1877). His reputation among his fellow writers, however, was more constant and those who admired him included Turgenev, George Sand, Victor Hugo and Zola. Flaubert's obsession with his art is legendary- he would work for days on a single page, obsessively attuning sentences, seeking always le mot juste in a quest for both beauty and precise observation. His style moved Edmund Wilson to say,'Flaubert, by a single phrase - a notation of some commonplace object - can convey all the poignance of human desire, the pathos of human defeat; his description of some homely scene will close with a dying fall that reminds one of great verse or music.' Flaubert died suddenly in May 1880, leaving his last work, Bouvard and Pecuchet, unfinished. Adam Thorpe (Translator) Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956. His first novel, Ulverton, appeared in 1992 and he has published two books of stories and ten further novels, most recently Missing Fay (2017), and six poetry collections. www.adamthorpe.net

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