(06/10/2008) Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. New York. 1992. Penguin Books. Translated From The French & With An Introduction By Geoffrey Wall. keywords: Penguin Classic Paperback France Literature Translated 19th Century. 292 pages. The cover shows a detail from Interior by Edgar Degas in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, collection Henry P. Mcllhenny. 0140445269.

FROM THE PUBLISHER -

   MADAME BOVARY is Flaubert's masterpiece, initially a succes de scandale and now a landmark in European literature. He took for his subject French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, and invented a paradoxically original and wholly modern style to match. His heroine is Emma, a bored provincial housewife who abandons her husband Charles Bovary to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair. 'Emma Bovary is the first in a procession of troubled and insubordinate young wives; the model for those adulterous bourgeois heroines. Therese Raquin, Anna Karenin, Hedda Gabbler, Sue Bridehead, Ursula Brangwen and Molly Bloom,' writes Geoffrey Wall in the introduction to his illuminating new translation. ' We are drawn, with great skill, into a sustained imaginative contact with Emma. We feel that we are inside her head, under her skin, as we read.'

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