TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roberts, Michèle
AU  - Flaubert, Gustave
AU  - Wall, Geoffrey
TI  - Madame Bovary
T2  - Penguin Classics
SN  - 9780140449129
PY  - 2003///
PB  - Penguin
KW  - P-EN
KW  - Sentimental novel
KW  - Romance
KW  - Not so classic (English)
KW  - READING IN ENGLISH
KW  - Literary classics
N1  - provincial lives
N2  - Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of a married woman's affair caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. Its heroine, Emma Bovary, is stifled by provincial life as the wife of a doctor. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she 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, the consequences are devastating. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: 'Madame Bovary, c'est moi.'
ER  -