Madame Bovary / Madam Bovary 9 editions
Set amid the stifling atmosphere of nineteenth-century bourgeois France, Madame Bovary is at once an unsparing depiction of a woman's gradual corruption and a savagely ironic study of human shallowness and stupidity. Neither Emma, nor her lovers, nor Homais, the man of science, escapes the author's searing castigation; and it is the book's final profound irony that only Charles, Emma's oxlike, eternally deceived husband, emerges with a measure of human grace through his stubborn and selfless love. With its rare formal perfection, Madame Bovary represents, as Frank O'Connor has declared, "possibly the most beautifully written book ever composed; undoubtedly the most beautifully written novel...a book that invites superlatives...the most important novel of the century."
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December 2001, Mondadori (IT)
Madame Bovary / Madam Bovary
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June 30, 2004, Ediciones Catedra S.A.
Madame Bovary / Madam Bovary
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| October 14, 2011 | Edited by WorkBot | merge works |
| March 22, 2011 | Edited by Philip Tidman | added a brief synopsis of a novel |
| April 28, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Linked existing covers to the work. |
| December 9, 2009 | Created by WorkBot | add works page |