Reading Madame Bovary

Author : Amanda Lohrey
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459605718

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Reading Madame Bovary by Amanda Lohrey Pdf

A woman finds her everyday life engulfed by vivid fantasies, a businessman explores new ways to deal with his rage, a young woman is stuck on a boat with a bunch of delinquents, a diary is discovered, a commune goes wrong In this captivating collection of short fiction, award-winning novelist Amanda Lohrey explores the dilemmas of modern life. Her characters find themselves caught between body and spirit, memory and desire, ambition and mortality - and they must transform themselves or be trapped. Shot through with a serene intelligence, these tales enlighten and entertain in equal measure.

Author : Amanda Lohrey
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Australian fiction
ISBN : 1863954902

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Reading Madame Bovary by Amanda Lohrey Pdf

From one of Australia's leading short-fiction writers comes a thrilling collection of stories that deal with transition and transformation. A woman finds her everyday world engulfed by vivid fantasies, a businessman finds a new way to deal with his rage, a couple contemplate the best way to educate their children, a young woman finds herself on a boat with a bunch of delinquent schoolkids, a diary is dicovered, a commune goes wrong. In these riveting stories, characters deal with crises of body and spirit. They find themselves ccaught between order and chaos, and must face the need to change or be trapped. Shot through with serene intelligence and a keen eye for character, these tales enlighten and entertain in equal measure.

Author : Gustave Flaubert
Publisher : Bantam Classics
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1982-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553213416

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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Pdf

This exquisite novel tells the story of one of the most compelling heroines in modern literature--Emma Bovary. "Madame Bovary has a perfection that not only stamps it, but that makes it stand almost alone; it holds itself with such a supreme unapproachable assurance as both excites and defies judgement." - Henry James Unhappily married to a devoted, clumsy provincial doctor, Emma revolts against the ordinariness of her life by pursuing voluptuous dreams of ecstasy and love. But her sensuous and sentimental desires lead her only to suffering corruption and downfall. A brilliant psychological portrait, Madame Bovary searingly depicts the human mind in search of transcendence. Who is Madame Bovary? Flaubert's answer to this question was superb: "Madame Bovary, c'est moi." Acclaimed as a masterpiece upon its publication in 1857, the work catapulted Flaubert to the ranks of the world's greatest novelists. This volume, with its fine translation by Lowell Bair, a perceptive introduction by Leo Bersani, and a complete supplement of essays and critical comments, is the indispensable Madame Bovary.

Author : Gustave Flaubert
Publisher : Amaryllis - an imprint of Manjul Publishing House
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789391242541

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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Pdf

“Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.” Madame Bovary tells the tragic tale of Emma Rouault, a beautiful but idealistic young woman who marries a second-rate country doctor, Charles Bovary, in the hopes of leading a life of adventure and luxury, like in the romance novels she loves to read. But she finds herself sorely disappointed with her dull existence. Even the birth of their daughter brings Emma little joy. In a last-ditch effort to do something adventurous and exciting, she begins an affair with a wealthy local man, Rodolphe Boulanger, and therein begins her downfall.

Author : Gustave Flaubert
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101462430

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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Pdf

For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for "offenses against morality and religion." What shocks us today about Flaubert's devastatingly realized tale of a young woman destroyed by the reckless pursuit of her romantic dreams is its pure artistry: the poise of its narrative structure, the opulence of its prose (marvelously captured in the English translation of Francis Steegmuller), and its creation of a world whose minor figures are as vital as its doomed heroine. In reading Madame Bovary, one experiences a work that remains genuinely revolutionary almost a century and a half after its creation.

Author : Peter Brooks
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465096077

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Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris by Peter Brooks Pdf

From the summer of 1870 through the spring of 1871, France suffered a humiliating defeat in its war against Prussia and witnessed bloody class warfare that culminated in the crushing of the Paris Commune. In Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris, Peter Brooks examines why Flaubert thought his recently published novel, Sentimental Education, was prophetic of the upheavals in France during this “terrible year,” and how Flaubert's life and that of his compatriots were changed forever. Brooks uses letters between Flaubert and his novelist friend and confidante George Sand to tell the story of Flaubert and his work, exploring his political commitments and his understanding of war, occupation, insurrection, and bloody political repression. Interweaving history, art history, and literary criticism—from Flaubert's magnificent novel of historical despair, to the building of the reactionary monument the Sacré-Coeur on Paris's highest summit, to the emergence of photography as historical witness—Brooks sheds new light on the pivotal moment when France redefined herself for the modern world.

Author : Linda Urbach
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385343879

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Madame Bovary's Daughter by Linda Urbach Pdf

Picking up after the shattering end of Gustave Flaubert’s classic, Madame Bovary, this beguiling novel imagines an answer to the question Whatever happened to Emma Bovary’s orphaned daughter? One year after her mother’s suicide and just one day after her father’s brokenhearted demise, twelve-year-old Berthe Bovary is sent to live on her grandmother’s impoverished farm. Amid the beauty of the French countryside, Berthe models for the painter Jean-François Millet, but fate has more in store for her than a quiet life of simple pleasures. Berthe’s determination to rise above her mother’s scandalous past will take her from the dangerous cotton mills of Lille to a convent in Rouen to the wealth and glamour of nineteenth-century Paris. There, as an apprentice to famed fashion designer Charles Frederick Worth, Berthe is ushered into the high society of which she once only dreamed. But even as the praise for her couture gowns steadily rises, she still yearns for the one thing her mother never had: the love of someone she loves in return. Brilliantly integrating one of classic literature’s fictional creations with real historical figures, Madame Bovary’s Daughter is an uncommon coming-of-age tale, a splendid excursion through the rags and the riches of French fashion, and a sweeping novel of poverty and wealth, passion and revenge.

Author : Gustave Flaubert
Publisher : Atlântico Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789898721709

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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Pdf

Madame Bovary (1856) is considered the French writer Gustave Flaubert’s masterpiece. The story focuses on a doctor’s wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means. When it was first serialized in “La Rue de Paris”, the novel was attacked for obscenity by public prosecutors. The resulting trial made the story notorious. After Flaubert’s acquittal, Madame Bovary became a bestseller. As a provocative tale of passion and self-delusions, Madame Bovary remains a milestone in European fiction. Madame Bovary has been adapted into several movies, like the 1949 version, directed by Vincente Minelli, and the most recent, directed by Sophie Barthes (2014). See the movie. Read the book. Madame Bovary integrates the collection “Classics of World Literature”, developed by Atlântico Press, a publisher company present in the global editorial market, since 1992.

Author : Gustave Flaubert
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143106494

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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Pdf

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. 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. Soon heartbroken and crippled by debts, she takes drastic action, with tragic consequences for her husband and daughter. 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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Edith Grossman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300163032

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Why Translation Matters by Edith Grossman Pdf

"Why Translation Matters argues for the cultural importance of translation and for a more encompassing and nuanced appreciation of the translator's role. As the acclaimed translator Edith Grossman writes in her introduction, "My intention is to stimulate a new consideration of an area of literature that is too often ignored, misunderstood, or misrepresented." For Grossman, translation has a transcendent importance: "Translation not only plays its important traditional role as the means that allows us access to literature originally written in one of the countless languages we cannot read, but it also represents a concrete literary presence with the crucial capacity to ease and make more meaningful our relationships to those with whom we may not have had a connection before. Translation always helps us to know, to see from a different angle, to attribute new value to what once may have been unfamiliar. As nations and as individuals, we have a critical need for that kind of understanding and insight. The alternative is unthinkable"."--Jacket.

Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Readers
ISBN : 1405865318

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Madame Bovary ; Retold by Christopher Tribble by Wilkie Collins Pdf

The Moonstone is an ancient Indian diamond which brings disaster to everyone who owns it. Rachel Verinder's uncle gives her the diamond as a birthday present, but that same night it is stolen. The Moonstone is now seen as the first, and one of the best, English detective novels.

Author : A. S. Thornton
Publisher : CamCat Publishing, LLC
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780744300505

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Daughter of the Salt King by A. S. Thornton Pdf

2021 Foreword INDIES Finalist A girl of the desert and a jinni born long ago by the sea, both enslaved to the Salt King—but with this capricious magic, only one can be set free. As a daughter of the Salt King, Emel ought to be among the most powerful women in the desert. Instead, she and her sisters have less freedom than even her father's slaves ... for the Salt King uses his own daughters to seduce visiting noblemen into becoming powerful allies by marriage. Escape from her father’s court seems impossible, and Emel dreams of a life where she can choose her fate. When members of a secret rebellion attack, Emel stumbles upon an alluring escape route: her father’s best-kept secret—a wish-granting jinni, Saalim. But in the land of the Salt King, wishes are never what they seem. Saalim’s magic is volatile. Emel could lose everything with a wish for her freedom as the rebellion intensifies around her. She soon finds herself playing a dangerous game that pits dreams against responsibility and love against the promise of freedom. As she finds herself drawn to the jinni for more than his magic, captivated by both him and the world he shows her outside her desert village, she has to decide if freedom is worth the loss of her family, her home and Saalim, the only man she’s ever loved.

Author : Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010182736

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The Doctor's Wife by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Pdf

Author : Al Robles
Publisher : University of California, Los Angeles, Asian American Studies Center
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015040589049

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Rappin' with Ten Thousand Carabaos in the Dark by Al Robles Pdf

"The quintessential Pilipino American poet, storyteller, and co-founder of the Kearny Street Asian American Writers' Workshop in San Francisco tells stories that span a century of Pilipino life in America. His poetry is inhabited by families, farm laborers, factory workers, Zen monks, pool sharks, cooks, children, lovers, preachers, pimps, young bloods, musicians, barbers and Buddhas"--Back cover.

Author : ANJALI. JOSEPH
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1914484886

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Keeping in Touch by ANJALI. JOSEPH Pdf

From award-winning writer Anjali Joseph, a compelling new novel about a dysfunctional love affair. Meet Ved, a British investor heading back to his Indian roots with a business proposition: a lightbulb called the everlasting Lucifer. Meet Keteki, an art curator with a nomadic lifestyle, on her way home to Assam. In Heathrow airport, on the way to Mumbai, their paths cross, sparking a love affair that soon turns into an intricate power game -- and a complicated journey towards intimacy.