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Madame Bovary (Hardcover, F Ed)
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Madame Bovary (Hardcover, F Ed)
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List price R564
Loot Price R461
Discovery Miles 4 610
You Save R103 (18%)
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From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique
hardcovers featuring cover art by type superstar Jessica Hische It
all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a
new series of twenty-six collectible and gift-worthy hardcover
editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously
illustrated letter of the alphabet by superstar type designer
Jessica Hische, whose work has appeared everywhere from Tiffany
& Co. to Wes Anderson's film Moonrise Kingdom to Penguin's own
bestsellers Committed and Rules of Civility. A collaboration
between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, the
series design encompasses foil-stamped paper-over-board cases in a
rainbow-hued spectrum across all twenty-six book spines and a
decorative stain on all three paper edges. Penguin Drop Caps debuts
with an A for Jane Austen s Pride and Prejudice, a B for Charlotte
Bronte s Jane Eyre, and a C for Willa Cather s My Antonia, and
continues with more classics from Penguin. F is for Flaubert. Emma
Bovary is the original desperate housewife. Beautiful but bored,
she is married to the provincial doctor Charles Bovary yet harbors
dreams of an elegant and passionate life. Escaping into sentimental
novels, she finds her fantasies dashed by the tedium of her days.
Motherhood proves to be a burden; religion is only a brief
distraction. In an effort to make her life everything she believes
it should be, she spends lavishly on clothes and on her home and
embarks on two disappointing affairs. Soon heartbroken and crippled
by debts, Emma takes drastic action with tragic consequences for
her husband and daughter. When published in 1857, Madame Bovary was
deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for
its heroine. Today the novel is considered the first masterpiece of
realist fiction. In this landmark translation of Flaubert s
masterwork, Lydia Davis honors the nuances and particulars of a
style that has long beguiled readers of French, giving new life in
English to the book that redefined the novel as an art form."
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