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Madame Bovary (Barnes & Noble Classics)

by Gustave Flaubert; Eleanor Marx Aveling; Chris Kraus
Publisher
Sterling Publishing
Year
Binding
Paperback
Pages
368

Flaubert's Emma burns with desires her provincial world cannot satisfy. Every sentence cuts like surgical steel—precise, merciless, beautiful. This edition holds one of literature's most perfect expressions of romantic disillusionment. The prose style revolutionized fiction by refusing to judge its heroine, simply watching her destroy herself with crystalline clarity. Essential for readers ready to stare unflinchingly at human folly and find it tragic rather than contemptible.

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