Volume 07 · Forthcoming
Madame Bovary
Annotated
Flaubert’s landmark novel in its complete French text, annotated for style, provincial society, consumer credit and the 1857 trial.
About the work
A landmark mystery, returned to its full narrative force.
Emma Bovary’s hunger for passion and refinement collides with a provincial world of routine, commerce and debt. Flaubert turns her illusions—and the language that feeds them—into one of the defining novels of literary realism. The complete three-part text is accompanied by notes on narrative voice, material culture and the institutions surrounding Emma.
Textual source. Complete French text of the Michel Lévy edition published in 1857.
What this edition adds
Care around the text,
never over it.
The complete 1857 novel
All three parts and thirty-five chapters retain Flaubert’s structure and exacting narrative progression.
Style brought into focus
The introduction and notes identify free indirect discourse, recurring images and shifts in point of view.
The machinery of debt
Period terms explain bills, endorsements, seizures and the consumer world that closes around Emma.
Built for long-form reading
Reflowable typography, layered navigation and restrained monochrome plates support an extended reading session.