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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
$250.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is one of 1000 limited-edition copies of "Madame Bovary" published to mark the sixtieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, with a special jacket created by the leading designer, Manolo Blahnik. Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banalit ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Heroines
One of the acknowledged masterpieces of 19th century realism, Madame Bovary is revered by writers and readers around the world, a mandatory stop on any pilgrimage through modern literature. Flaubert's legendary style, his intense care over the selection of words and the shaping of sentences, his unmatch ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Emma Bovary is an avid reader of sentimental novels; brought up on a Normandy farm and convent-educated, she longs for the passion of romance. At first, Emma pins her hopes on marriage, but life with her well-meaning husband in the provinces leaves her bored and dissatisfied. She seeks escape through ex ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary is one of the most influential - and scandalous - novels of the nineteenth century. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Geoffrey Wall, with a preface by Michele Roberts.Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a medio ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her a ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert; Adam Thorpe (Translator)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Madame BovaryBy Gustave FlaubertEmma, the main heroine of the novel Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, is bored with the emptiness and ordinariness of the provincial life, so she engages in the extramarital affair hoping to change the circumstances. After the book had been published, the author and two ...Show more
Madame Bovary (Vintage classics Europeans Series) by Gustave Flaubert
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classic Europeans Ser.
When Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary she imagines she will pass into the life of luxury and passion that she reads about in sentimental novels and women's magazines. But Charles is a dull country doctor, and provincial life is very different from the romantic excitement for which she yearns. In her ...Show more
SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION THE STORY OF A YOUNG MAN by FLAUBERT GUSTAVE
$50.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert
$13.08 AUD
$24.95 (47% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An epic story of lust, cruelty, and sensuality, this historical novel is set in Carthage in the days following the First Punic War with Rome.
Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
$9.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
"Sentimental Education" begins with the hero - Frederic Moreau - leaving Paris and returning to the provinces and his mother. Part love story, part historical novel and satire it tells of how Moreau is driven by passion for an unattainable older woman. His 'sentimental education' turns out to be more of ...Show more
Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In each of three short stories--"Herodias," "The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitator," and "A Simple Heart"--Gustave Flaubert studies the nature of humanity and spirituality with his characteristically sharp eye. A loyal servant dies alone, having served her masters all her life without complaining of ...Show more
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