When published in 1857, Madame Bovary was embraced by bourgeois women who claimed it spoke to the frustrations of their lives.
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In this landmark new translation of Gustave Flaubert\'s masterwork, award-winning writer and translator Lydia Davis honors the nuances and particulars of Flaubert\'s legendary prose style, giving new life in English to the book that redefined the novel as an art form.
Soon heartbroken and crippled by debts, she takes drastic action, with tragic consequences for her husband and daughter.
Beautiful but bored, she spends lavishly on clothes and on her home and embarks on two disappointing affairs in an effort to make her life everything she believes it should be.
The award-winning, nationally bestselling translation, by Lydia Davis, of one of the world\'s most celebrated novels Emma Bovary is the original desperate housewife.
Davis\'s landmark translation gives new life in English to Flaubert\'s masterwork.
When published in 1857, Madame Bovary was embraced by bourgeois women who claimed it spoke to the frustrations of their lives
