Madame Bovary (Color Illustrations Edition)

Author: (French) Flaubert
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Publishing 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 extremely perfect and exquisite work in French art, 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 for Chinese readers to read. In 1999, it was selected for the "Ideal Book Collection for Chinese Readers" list. In 1986, it was recommended as one of the personal ideal book collections by the French magazine L'.