Madame Bovary (Vintage Classics)

A softcover edition in fine condition. Covers are clean, bright, and square, with no creasing to the spine. The pages are crisp and unmarked throughout. A tight, fresh book in excellent shape. First Vintage Classics edition, January 1992. Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life, translated by Francis Steegmuller, published by Vintage Books, New York. Steegmuller was a prolific translator and authority on French literature, a National Book Award recipient, and a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour; his 1957 translation of Madame Bovary is widely regarded by scholars as the standard English-language rendering of the novel, praised for its fidelity to Flaubert's rhythm and prose style. First published in French in 1856 and immediately prosecuted for obscenity before becoming a bestseller, Madame Bovary follows Emma Bovary, a doctor's wife in provincial Normandy.