Madame Bovary

Author: (French) Flaubert
Translator: Luo Guolin
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: Madame Bovary is Flaubert's breakthrough work and masterpiece. Through the depiction of the tragic emotional life of a petty-bourgeois woman, the novel portrays a social customs history of 19th-century France. It is an artistically perfect and exquisite work in French, and another masterpiece of 19th-century critical realism following The Red and the Black and The Human Comedy. One of the 37 world literary masterpieces recommended by Mao Dun. In 1999, it was selected as one of the ideal book collections for Chinese readers by the Guangming Daily Publishing House. In 1986, it was recommended as an ideal personal book collection by the French L' magazine.