Bored and unhappy in a lifeless marriage, Emma Bovary yearns to escape from the dull circumstances of provincial life. Married to a simple-minded but indulgent country doctor, she takes one lover, then another, hastens her husband's financial ruin with her extravagance...
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1888) was brought to trial by the French government on the grounds of the novel's alleged immorality, but unlike his less fortunate contemporary, Baudelaire, he narrowly escaped conviction.
Falubert's powerful and deeply moving examination of the moral degeneration of a middle-class Frenchwoman is universally regarded as one of the landmarks of 19th-century fiction. It is reproduced here, complete and unabridged, in the classic translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, daughter of Karl Marx.
Unabridged, slightly corrected Dover (1996) republication of the translation first published by Vizetelly and Company, London, 1886.
For those reading via Kindle, this free e-edition is listed as having the same translator as the paperback above available via the library: Click here. (Nook doesn't have a free e-edition and was unable to find one with the same translator as the paperback available at the library). To see if you can borrow an e-edition via your e-reader device, go to Library On The Go via http://www.monmouthcountylib.org/.
We will meet to discuss Madam Bovary on Thursday, May 29, 2014, at 7pm at the Atlantic Highlands branch of the Monmouth County Library, located at 100 First Avenue in downtown Atlantic Highlands inside Borough hall.
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