- Published: 17 October 2023
- ISBN: 9781784878450
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 432
- RRP: $22.99
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- Published: 17 October 2023
- ISBN: 9781784878450
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 432
- RRP: $22.99
Magnificent. I insist everyone reads Adam Thorpe's new translation.
Vogue
A handsomely bound hardback edition that perfectly befits the beautiful new translation therein... we are pretty confident that Thorpe's bash at Bovary is a contender for the new best English version out there. Sensitive and musical, and simply and wittily annotated, it's got "new classic" written all over it. Plus it's dressed in this really elegant embroidered design by Karen Nichols, so everything gangs up and makes it basically a must-buy.
Stuart Hammond, Dazed and Confused
Flaubert's 1856 novel begins with marriage and what follows is the archetypal tale of a desperate housewife
Daily Telegraph
Mesmerising
Independent
The most scandalous novel of all time
Playboy
Madame Bovary is profoundly, shatteringly real
Observer
Fairy stories end with the lovers marrying and living happy ever after. Jane Austen's novels keep that pattern. The great realist novels study at length what happens after marriage, within marriages, within families and businesses. Madame Bovary... is both terrifying and simultaneously gleeful over its own accuracy
A.S. Byatt
This is an extraordinary, complex novel. Filled with romantic longings, Emma is a troubled wife married to a doctor in the French provinces and driven almost mad with boredom. In it, Flaubert drives deep into the female psyche exposing intimate, pitiful and, ultimately, destructive fantasies
Elizabeth Buchan, Daily Express
A work of brilliance
Daily Mail