{"product_id":"madame-bovary-provincial-lives-paperback","title":"Madame Bovary: Provincial Lives - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGustave Flaubert\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGeoffrey Wall\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eGeoffrey Wall\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe notorious and celebrated novel that established modern realism\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Flaubert invented a paradoxically original and wholly modern style. His heroine, Emma Bovary, a bored provincial housewife, abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair. A succès de scandale in its day, \u003cb\u003eMadame Bovary\u003c\/b\u003e remains a powerful and scintillating novel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes and an introduction by Geoffrey Wall. It includes a preface by Michele Roberts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGustave Flaubert\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Rouen in 1821, the son of a prominent physician. A solitary child, he was attracted to literature at an early age, and after his recovery from a nervous breakdown suffered while a law student, he turned his total energies to writing. Aside from journeys to the Near East, Greece, Italy, and North Africa, and a stormy liaison with the poetess Louise Colet, his life was dedicated to the practice of his art. The form of his work was marked by intense aesthetic scrupulousness and passionate pursuit of le mot juste; its content alternately reflected scorn for French bourgeois society and a romantic taste for exotic historical subject matter. The success of \u003cb\u003eMadame Bovary\u003c\/b\u003e (1857) was ensured by government prosecution for \"immorality\"; \u003cb\u003eSalammbô\u003c\/b\u003e (1862) and \u003cb\u003eThe Sentimental Education\u003c\/b\u003e (1869) received a cool public reception; not until the publication of \u003cb\u003eThree Tales\u003c\/b\u003e (1877) was his genius popularly acknowledged. Among fellow writers, however, his reputation was supreme. His circle of friends included Turgenev and the Goncourt brothers, while the young Guy de Maupassant underwent an arduous literary apprenticeship under his direction. Increasing personal isolation and financial insecurity troubled his last years. His final bitterness and disillusion were vividly evidenced in the savagely satiric \u003cb\u003eBouvard and Pécuchet\u003c\/b\u003e, left unfinished at his death in 1880. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeoffrey Wall is author of the critically acclaimed \u003cb\u003eFlaubert: A Life\u003c\/b\u003e and translated \u003cb\u003eMadame Bovary\u003c\/b\u003e for Penguin Classics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichèle Roberts\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of ten highly praised novels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 335\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.91 x 7.74 x 5.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 31, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Madame Bovary\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Upper Grades, 9-12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.1\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 27\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44376563220582,"sku":"9780140449129","price":20.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/S47U9tsR-Y9780140449129.webp?v=1768859501","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/madame-bovary-provincial-lives-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}