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MADAME BOVARY : PENGUIN CLASSICS / GEOFFREY WALL TRANSL (Updated Edition) by Gustave Flaubert, Geoffrey Wall (Translator), Michele (Preface By) Roberts, Madame Bovary, Manolo Blahnik (Designer) Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2002 ISBN-10: 0-14-044912-4 / 0140449124 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-044912-9 / 9780140449129 Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" scandalised French bourgeois society of the time with its shocking depiction of an adulteress, Emma Bovary, and her lascivious liaisons. The 19th-century press denounced both the book and its author as corrupting influences. History has exonerated Flaubert and exposed the |