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Madame Bovary (Bantam Classics)

by Gustave Flaubert

Published: 1982-07-01

Paperback: 512 pages

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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 de...

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Madame Bovary (Enriched Classics)

by Gustave Flaubert

Published: 2007-01-02

Mass Market Paperback: 512 pages

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Emma Bovary is a bored housewife who indulges her romantic fantasies with a series of adulterous affairs. Charged with obscenity when first published, the novel became a literary scandal and a bestseller.THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:? A concise introduction that gives the reader ...

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Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)

by Gustave Flaubert, Mark Overstall

Published: 2005-05-13

Paperback: 358 pages

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'Would this misery go on forever? Was there no escape? And yet she was every bit as good as all those other women who led happy lives!' 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....

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Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)

by Gustave Flaubert

Published: 2002-12-31

Paperback: 384 pages

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The notorious and celebrated novel that established modern realism For this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Flaubert invented a paradoxically original and wholly modern style. His heroine, Emma Bovary, a bored provincial housewife, abandons her husband to pu...

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Madame Bovary / Madam Bovary (Biblioteca Clasica Y Contemporanea) (Spanish Edition)

by Gustavo Flaubert

Published: 2005-10

Paperback: 464 pages

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Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners (Oxford World's Classics)

by Gustave Flaubert, Malcolm Bowie, Mark Overstall

Published: 2008-05-15

Paperback: 358 pages

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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 sentenc...

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Madame Tussaud. by Michelle Moran

by Michelle Moran

Published: 2011-03

Paperback: 432 pages

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Marie has grown up in her step-father's waxwork museum, learning the ways of crafting human statues for the rich and famous of Paris. But all is not well in the French capital, the people are going hungry while the king and queen and their court live increasingly lavish lives. Surrounded by her father's...

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Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

by Michelle Moran

Published: 2011-02-15

Hardcover: 464 pages

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The world knows Madame Tussaud as a wax artist extraordinaire . . . but who was this woman who became one of the most famous sculptresses of all time? In these pages, her tumultuous and amazing story comes to life as only Michelle Moran can tell it. The year is 1788, and a revolution is ab...

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Madapple, 9 Cds [Unabridged Library Edition]

by Christina Meldrum

Published: 2008

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Made for Goodness: And Why This Makes All the Difference

by Desmond Tutu, Mpho Tutu

Published: 2010-03-01

Hardcover: 224 pages

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Over the years the same questions get asked of Desmond Tutu, the archbishop, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and veteran of the moral movement that ended apartheid in South Africa: "How can you be so hopeful after witnessing so much evil?" "Why are you so sure goodness will triumph in the end?"...