Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
By Gustave Flaubert.
Description
The award-winning, nationally bestselling translation, by Lydia Davis, of one of the world’s most celebrated novelsEmma Bovary is the original desperate housewife. Beautiful but bored, she spends lavishly on clothes and on her home and embarks on two disappointing affairs in an effort to make her life everything she believes it should be. Soon heartbroken and crippled by debts, she takes drastic action, with tragic consequences for her husband and daughter. In this landmark new translation of Gustave Flaubert's masterwork, award-winning writer and translator Lydia Davis honors th...
ISBN(s)
014310649X, 9780143106494
