{"product_id":"madame-bovary-provincial-lives-9780140449129","title":"Madame Bovary: Provincial Lives","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe notorious and celebrated novel that established modern realism\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Flaubert invented a paradoxically original and wholly modern style. His heroine, Emma Bovary, a bored provincial housewife, abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair. A succ s de scandale in its day, \u003cb\u003eMadame Bovary\u003c\/b\u003e remains a powerful and scintillating novel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes and an introduction by Geoffrey Wall. It includes a preface by Michele Roberts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/31\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780140449129\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 335\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.74h x 5.08w x 0.91d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader Quiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e167218 \/ Madame Bovary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.1 \/ \u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade \/ \u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 27\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Gustave Flaubert","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36634786824348,"sku":"9780140449129","price":11.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_0961d6c8-ee9f-4bd6-905e-4e639f3877b3.jpg?v=1603837646","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/madame-bovary-provincial-lives-9780140449129","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}