{"product_id":"9781411432598","title":"Madame Bovary (Barnes \u0026 Noble Classics Series)","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMadame Bovary\u003c\/i\u003e, by \u003cb\u003eGustave Flaubert\u003c\/b\u003e, is part of the \u003ci\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble Classics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of \u003ci\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble Classics\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBiographies of the authors \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFootnotes and endnotes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eComments by other famous authors \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStudy questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliographies for further reading \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndices \u0026amp; Glossaries, when appropriate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. \u003ci\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble Classics \u003c\/i\u003epulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe publication in 1857 of \u003ci\u003eMadame Bovary\u003c\/i\u003e, with its vivid depictions of sex and adultery, incited a backlash of immorality charges. The novel tells the story of Emma Bovary, a doctor’s wife bored and unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood. She embarks upon a series of affairs in search of passion and excitement, but is unable to achieve the splendid life for which she yearns. Instead, she finds herself trapped in a downward spiral that inexorably leads to ruin and self-destruction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlong with Tolstoy’s \u003ci\u003eAnna Karenina\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003eFlaubert\u003c\/b\u003e’s tragic novel stands as a brilliant portrayal of infidelity, an incisive psychological portrait of a woman torn between duty and desire. Written with acute attention to telling detail, \u003ci\u003eMadame Bovary\u003c\/i\u003e not only exposes the emptiness of one woman’s bourgeois existence and failure to fill that void with fantasies, sex, and material objects. Emma’s thirst for life mirrors the universal human impulse for idealized fulfillment.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChris Kraus\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels\u003ci\u003e I Love Dick, Aliens \u0026amp; Anorexia,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTorpor,\u003c\/i\u003e and a collection of essays, \u003ci\u003eVideo Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness.\u003c\/i\u003e She is co-editor, with Sylvere Lotringer and Hedi El Kholti, of the independent press Semiotext(e). She teaches in the graduate program of the San Francisco Art Institute.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121707204848,"sku":"9781411432598","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781411432598_p0.jpg?v=1763722026","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781411432598","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}