Madame Bovary

- Gustave Flaubert

Emma Bovary is the original hopeless housewife. Beautiful but wearied, she spends lavishly on clothes and on her home and embarks on two disappointing affairs in an trouble to make her life everything she believes it should be. Soon agonized and crippled by debts, she takes drastic action, with woeful consequences for her hubby and son. In this corner new restatement of Gustave Flaubert's masterwork, award- winning pen and translator Lydia Davis honors the nuances and particulars of Flaubert's fabulous prose style, giving new life in English to the book that readdressed the novel as an art form.

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About the author

Gustave Flaubert( 1821 – 1880) was born in Rouen, France, and was brought to popular attention when Madame Bovary was supposed immoral by the French government. 

Lydia Davis( translator) is a MacArthur Fellow, National Book Award finalist, and Officier of the Order of trades and Letters and was awarded the 2011 French- American Foundation Translation Prize for her restatement of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and the 2003 French- American Foundation Translation Prize for her restatement of Marcel Proust's Swann's Way. She lives near Albany, New York.

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