The award-winning, nationally bestselling translation, by Lydia Davis,
of one of the world's most celebrated novels
Emma Bovary is the original desperate housewife. Beautiful but bored,
she spends lavishly on clothes and on her home and embarks on two
disappointing affairs in an effort to make her life everything she
believes it should be. Soon heartbroken and crippled by debts, she takes
drastic action, with tragic consequences for her husband and daughter.
In this landmark new translation of Gustave Flaubert's masterwork,
award-winning writer and translator Lydia Davis honors the nuances and
particulars of Flaubert's legendary prose style, giving new life in
English to the book that redefined the novel as an art form.
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