Celebrated Translations -- Madame Bovary

Author: Flaubert
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: Madame Bovary is Flaubert's breakthrough work and masterpiece. Through the portrayal of the tragic emotional life of a petty-bourgeois woman, the novel depicts a social customs history of 19th-century France. It is an artistically perfect and exquisite masterpiece of French, serving as another of 19th-century realist critique 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 Press. In 1986, it was recommended as an ideal personal book collection by the French L'Express magazine.