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Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and devastating consequences. Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: "Madame Bovary, c'est moi." One of the greatest novels of the 19th century, Flaubert’s torrid debut lives on in Geoffrey Wall’s brilliant translation.  This edition features an introduction by Wall, and a preface on Emma Bovary's femininity and modernity by novelist Michèle Roberts.

艾玛·包法利既美丽又无聊，她和一个平庸的医生结婚，被世俗的世俗生活所扼杀。作为一个感伤小说的热心读者，她渴望激情，并在高度浪漫的幻想中寻求逃避，在贪婪的消费中，最终在通奸中。但即使是她的外遇也给她带来了失望和毁灭性的后果。福楼拜对艾玛·包法利充满情欲和敏锐心理的刻画在1857年出版时引起了道德上的强烈抗议。这部小说被认为是如此逼真，以至于许多女性都声称自己是他的女主人公的楷模；但福楼拜坚持说：“包法利夫人，我是莫伊。”作为19世纪最伟大的小说之一，福楼拜的热情洋溢的处女作在杰弗里·沃尔的精彩翻译中继续流传。这一版本的特点是由沃尔介绍，并对艾玛鲍法利的女性和现代性的小说家米切尔罗伯茨前言。