🌹New Listing🌹NWT Madame Bovary - classic novel - book by Gustave Flaubert

Classic novel 'Madame Bovary’ by Gustave Flaubert. Both embodiment and victim of the self-satisfied nineteenth-century French bourgeoisie, Emma Bovary lives in pursuit of something more, like the world depicted in the romance novels that have come to define her. Emma is oblivious to the realities of life, and her romantic delusions and search for transcendence through sex, money, and social position serve only to drive the increasingly troubled woman into an irreversible moral, emotional, and spiritual decline. That the author depicted his heroine in neutral terms, without condemnation, resulted in obscenity charges from the French courts, which likened the “lascivious” Madame Bovary’s “lack of restraint” to “a woman who throws off all garments.” Exactly. Madame Bovary remains one of the most daring and liberating novels ever written. “Possibly the most beautifully written book ever composed & the most important novel of the century.”—Frank O’Connor “Perhaps we identify with Emma because we too feel an emptiness at the center of things—an emptiness we try to fill with books, with fantasies, with sex, with things. Her yearning is nothing more or less than the human condition in the modern world. Her search for ecstasy is ours.”—Erica Jong Gustave Flaubert (1821–80) This book is in New & Unread condition, but there is foxing (yellowing) on the edges of the pages, from sitting for years on a bookshelf. Any questions? Please feel free to ask. Thanks much for looking! 😀