Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners (Oxford World’s Classics) by Gustave Flaubert (PDF)

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Would this misery go on forever? Was there no escape? And yet she was every bit as good as all those other women who led happy lives!’When Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary she imagines she will pass into the life of luxury and passion that she reads about in sentimental novels and women’s magazines. But Charles is a dull country doctor, and provincial life is very different from the romantic excitement for which she yearns. In her quest to realize her dreams she takes a lover, and begins a devastating spiral into deceit and despair.Flaubert’s novel scandalized its readers when it was first published in 1857, and it remains unsurpassed in its unveiling of character and society. In this new translation Margaret Mauldon perfectly captures the tone that makes Flaubert’s style so distinct and admired.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World’s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford’s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐Seller was great, but hope you own a magnifying glass if you’ve purchased this edition by Oxford. I’m not far-sighted and do not need reading glasses, but this font is tinyyyy. Would be an uncomfortable read.Come on, Oxford University Press? Can’t afford the extra page count to print anything larger than 8 pt.(?) font???I’m returning and ordering Penguin’s edition.

⭐I watched the movie of this on Amazon prime and lived it. I was interested in reading the book and comparing them. Great book was used but looked new. Fast shipping and great price.

⭐Flaubert’s vocabulary and knowledge are incredible. I learned a tremendous amount of interesting, but useless things. Unfortunately the book is too wordy, too long and boring. Pass.

⭐I read this for a Phil/Lit 400 level college course. This is a good edition for such a purpose. I had previously heard Madame Bovary described as a story about a married woman who had a problem with infidelity and a habit of collecting lovers. That is a complete misrepresentation of the plot. Overall, this is a story about a woman who becomes increasingly disconnected with reality. This is not what you would call a romance- by any stretch of the imagination. It is a story of a tragically unstable woman. The characters are well rounded. Flaubert is very readable and has a style that isn’t too complicated.

⭐item arrived as described, ahead of schedule and carefully packaged.

⭐Madame Bovary is a timeless clasic.I bought it for my daughter as part of her readings of the classics.She very much enjoyed it.

⭐A good read..

⭐good choice!

⭐Henry James thought it was the perfect novel, and Nabokov was a big fan. I’m not quite that enthusiastic. The story is repetitive and has no real surprises. Emma Bovary herself is simple-minded and feckless, and we can see how easily she’s going to be duped by opportunistic lovers, so we might feel sympathy for her but it’s a very detached involvement. You don’t get swept along as you do in Tess or Wuthering Heights or even Pride & Prejudice.Still, it is beautifully written and evokes a completely believable inner life. And you do feel the awful, stifling press of bourgeois rural life and the tragedy that Emma, with a better education and a stronger character, might have had a life worth living.

⭐If you like modern English it’s fine but for me it ruined the book and couldn’t be bothered to continue afte reading a phrase like “she couldn’t get her head around it”. In 19th century rural France? I don’t think so.

⭐I won’t focus this review on the actual novel itself. In terms of Flaubert’s contribution to the development of the novel and to realism, this novel obviously deserves five stars. It is a truly remarkable novel that fully warrants its central place in the nineteenth-century canon.I would highly recommend this edition. At £5.59, the Oxford University Press are managing to sell this book on the cheaper end of the spectrum. However nothing is sacrificied; the translation is to the highest standard I have come across, the footnotes and annotations are erudite and help one achieve a fuller understanding and appreciation of the novel. The introduction compliments the text well and provides some astute and insightful criticism of it and also includes some useful historical context from nineteenth-century France. There is also a useful bibliography that can direct the reader to the more worthwhile secondary texts about Flaubert and Madame Bovary.If you would like to read this novel, this is the edition to buy. I would recommend it for everyone, from the inexperienced reader of classical novels to someone who is pursuing a degree in literary studies at university.

⭐In contrast to most reviewers of this translation, I found the style to be overelaborate, making the book a more intricate read than it need be. So try another translation (Penguin’s, for instance), where the translator isn’t tryng to directly translate Flaubert’s every nuance. Such a strategy will necessarily result in non-fluent English.

⭐Awesome

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