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Sprache: English
Autor(en): Gustave Flaubert,
Genre(s): Familienleben, Veröffentlicht 1800 - 1900,
Aktuelle Wiedergabe
[1/35] Part I, Chapter 1
Written over a century and a half ago, Madame Bovary is still an extraordinarily fresh, exciting and shockingly frank novel, at once an acute psychological study of a woman drawn into adultery through circumstances we can partly understand, and a sharply-observed comedy that offers a fascinating glimpse of the social and cultural divisions running through French provincial society in the mid nineteenth century. This translation is by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, a prominent social activist and literary translator. She was the youngest daughter of Karl Marx. (Summary by Peter Dann)