Madame Bovary: Popular Penguins by Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary: Popular Penguins

Author: Gustave Flaubert

Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and the consequences are devastating.

Flaubert's erotically charged novel caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857.

Salammbo

By Gustave Flaubert

An epic story of lust, cruelty, and sensuality, this historical novel is set in Carthage in the days following the First Punic War with Rome.

Published: 01/02/1982

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780140443288

RRP: $9.95

Sentimental Education

By Gustave Flaubert

Frederic Moreau is a law student returning home to Normandy from Paris when he first notices Mme Arnoux, a slender, dark woman several years older than himself. It is the beginning of an infatuation that will last a lifetime. He befriends her husband, an influential businessman, and their paths cross and re-cross over the years. Through financial upheaval, political turmoil and countless affairs, Mme...

Published: 15/10/2004

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780140447972

RRP: $9.95

Three Tales

By Gustave Flaubert

First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness and religious experience, and together form a triumphant conclusion to Flaubert's literary career. With elegant simplicity, 'A Simple Heart' relates the story of Filiciti – an uneducated serving-woman who retains her Catholic faith despite a life of desolation and loss. Inspired by a stained-glass...

Published: 01/06/2005

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780140448009

RRP: $9.95

Madame Bovary

By Gustave Flaubert

Emma is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and when real life continues to fail to live up to her romantic expectations...

Published: 06/03/2003

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780140449129

RRP: $9.95

Madame Bovary

By Gustave Flaubert

Emma Bovary, beautiful and ambitious but bored by her life in the provinces and her marriage to a country doctor, craves passion in her life. She tries to escape into sentimental novels and to find glamour in expensive fashion and an elaborately decorated home. Her self-obsession and romantic fantasies lead her into two disappointing affairs and escalating debt as Emma struggles to make her life everything...

Published: 11/01/2011

Format: Hardback

ISBN: 9781846141041

RRP: $39.95

Madame Bovary: Pocket Penguin Classics

By Gustave Flaubert

Published: 29/10/2007

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141028866

RRP: $16.95

Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

By Gustave Flaubert

At once a classic of travel literature and a penetrating portrait of a 'sensibility on tour,' Flaubert in Egypt wonderfully captures the young writer's impressions during his 1849 voyages. Using diaries, letters, travel notes, and the evidence of Flaubert's traveling companion, Maxime Du Camp, Francis Steegmuller reconstructs his journey through the bazaars and brothels of Cairo and down the Nile to...

Published: 30/04/1996

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780140435825

RRP: $9.95