Wonders of the World: Madame Bovary: Provincial Lives - Brossura

Flaubert, Gustave

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ISBN 10: 0140448187 ISBN 13: 9780140448184

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2002

Riassunto

'Oh, why, dear God, did I marry him?' Flaubert's heroine, Emma, is a bored provincial housewife who abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair. Flaubert published published MADAME BOVARY in 1857. The book created a sensation when Flaubert was prosecuted for offending public morals and later acquitted.

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L'autore:

Gustave Flaubert (1821-77) works include SALAMBO (1862), SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION (1869), THE TEMPTATION OF ST. ANTHONY (1874), THREE TALES (1877), the posthumously published BOUVARD AND PECUCHET(1881) and the remarkable volumes of his correspondence.

Geoffrey Wall teaches at the University of York and works, by night, as a translator, a literary biographer, a travel writer and a journalist.

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• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0140448187
• ISBN 13: 9780140448184
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320