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mass market paperback. Condizione: acceptable; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED12mo; 361 pages; acceptable mass market paperback; crease to cover with scuff; slight nicks to edges cover; tips bumped with chip; spine starting to slant; some tanning; faint stain; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking. …

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Condition: (see pics.) The book is a little scruffy from previous readings. Still a nice-to-hold retro copy of the book. Printed in 1959. Synopsis: Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. When the novel was first serialised in La Revue de Paris between 1 October 1856 and 15 December 1856, public prosecutors attacked the novel for obscenity. The resulting trial in January 1857 made the story notorious. After Flaubert's acquittal on 7 February 1857, Madame Bovary became a bestseller in April 1857 when it was published in two volumes. A seminal work of literary realism, the novel is now considered Flaubert's masterpiece, and one of the most influential literary works in history. Emma Bovary is the beautiful wife of Charles Bovary and one of the great heroines of literature. Emma attempts to escape her tedious marriage by entering into romantic fantasies, but her longing for a lover has disastrous results. A portrait of French bourgeois life, Madame Bovary is a masterpiece of world literature.…