Madame Bovary /
Gustave Flaubert ; translated by Lowell Bair ; edited and with an introduction by Leo Bersani.
- Bantam Classic reissue ed.
- New York : Bantam Classic, 2005, c1972.
- xxiv, 478 p ; 18 cm.
Translation of: Madame Bovary.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [475-478).
The wife of a provincial doctor seeks to escape her boredom by indulging in romantic fantasies and adulterous affairs in nineteenth-century France.
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