Book
Madame Bovary : provincial ways / Gustave Flaubert ; translated with an introduction and notes by Lydia Davis. --
Record details
- ISBN: 0670022071
- ISBN: 9780670022076
- Physical Description: xxxi, 342 p.
- Publisher: New York : Viking Penguin, 2010.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 35.00 |
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| Subject: | Classics > Fiction Literary > Fiction Physicians' spouses > Fiction. Married women > Fiction. Adultery > Fiction. Suicide victims > Fiction. Middle class > France > Fiction. France > History > 19th century > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Flaub | 31681020043287 | FICTION | Available | - |
| Stroud Branch | FIC Flaub | 31681002591956 | FICTIONPBK | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
The acclaimed translator behind the recent new edition of Marcel Proust'sSwann's Way uses her skills to offer a new translation of Flaubert's classic tale, in which the title character turns to spending and a series of affairs to combat the boredom of married life and, heartbroken and crippled by debts, takes drastic action that results in tragedy. - Baker & Taylor
Offers a new translation of Flaubert's classic tale, in which the title character turns to spending and a series of affairs to combat the boredom of married life and, heartbroken and crippled by debts, takes drastic action that results in tragedy. - Penguin Putnam
A literary event: one of the most celebrated novels ever written, in a magnificent new translation
Seven years ago, the incomparable Lydia Davis brought us an award-winning, rapturously reviewed new translation of Marcel Proust's Swann's Way that was hailed as "clear and true to the music of the original" (Los Angeles Times) and "a work of creation in its own right" (Claire Messud, Newsday). Now she turns her gifts to the book that defined the novel as an art form.
When Emma Rouault marries dull, provincial doctor Charles Bovary, her dreams of an elegant and passionate life crumble. She escapes into sentimental novels but finds her fantasies dashed by the tedium of her days. Motherhood proves to be a burden; religion is only a brief distraction. She spends lavishly and embarks on a series of disappointing affairs. Soon heartbroken and crippled by debts, Emma takes drastic action with tragic consequences for her husband and daughter. When published in 1857, Madame Bovary was embraced by bourgeois women who claimed it spoke to the frustrations of their lives. Davis's landmark translation gives new life in English to Flaubert's masterwork.
