The good soldier: a tale of passion
by Womack, Kenneth, Baker, William, Ford, Ford Madox
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[This volume]: readers glimpse middle-class life in provincial France through twenty-one accompanying visuals, carefully selected from popular publications of the time.-Back cover.
Presents "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert with substantially revised and expanded explanations. Includes twenty-one visuals depicting middle-class life in provincial France, early versions of the novel, Flaubert's commentary in letters, and sixteen critical essays from variou…
Madame Bovary: contexts, critical reception
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In "Madame Bovary," his story of a shallow, deluded, unfaithful, but consistently compelling woman living in the provinces of nineteenth-century France, Gustave Flaubert invented not only the modern novel but also a modern attitude toward human character and human experience tha…
Set in France this story centers around the bored housewife of a provincial doctor, wwhose desires and illusions are inevitably shattered when reality catches up with her.
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. Motherho…
Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert, is part of the <A href=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/classics/index.asp?z=y&cds2Pid=16447&sLinkPrefix>Barnes & Noble Classics</A> series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new s…
The publication in 1857 of Madame Bovary, with its vivid depictions of sex and adultery, incited a backlash of immorality charges. The novel tells the story of Emma Bovary, a doctor's wife bored and unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood. She embarks upon a series of affairs in …