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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
This is about the Kindle (free) version, not about Flaubert's book. The translation and proofreading are a disgrace. Even the way that chapter headings look like part of the text detracts from ay pleasure. I see from another reviewer that this version is not even complete. I know Amazon can do better. This is a sad disappointment.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
I don't know if my download didn't work properly, but when I reached the end of the book (which I enjoyed enormously) it said 'end of volume 1'. There is no mention of volume 2. I've now checked with a print version of the book and find that I only have about two thirds of the book on my Kindle. So I'm finishing it off in the print version. Be warned - you may not have read all of the book!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is a conventional story of a female decline, helped of course by the male species!! At times this book is brillant if not stunning - e.g. the scene at political speech and the simultaneous interaction between the lovers. Seen this done in the movies but never on paper and its so realistic. At other times the book just goes on too long on detail. Agree with the comments on the Kindle edition - proper chapter breaks would have been useful but I did have the full version to the end.
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I absolutely fell in love with this book. I was struck by how much the character of Emma resonates with today's materialistic society, and thought it is the mark of a truly... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Miss J. K. Boden
excellent item
A first class book in good condition at a reasonable price. Read in our local literary group where we all enjoyed Madame Bovary.
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Old and free but good
Good read , despite being a classic and freebie I enjoyed it as luckily hadn't ever seen the film. Nice to read the classics for free thanks Amazon
Published 9 months ago by njg
Madame Bovary.
A classic novel by Flaubert that had some issues with transllation but this did not spoil the enjoyment in reading.
Published 11 months ago by pod
Slow but worth a read
I read this book as part of my wish to read more of the classics.
Generally I enjoyed the story, however I found myself skipping over some parts. Read more
Generally I enjoyed the story, however I found myself skipping over some parts. Read more
Published 15 months ago by kelz
Small town France morality tale
Well written but the translation is a little 'loose' in places, sometime the sense is difficult to ascertain as a result.
Published 20 months ago by Andy Tymeiz
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A man, on the contrary, should he not know everything, excel in manifold activities, initiate you into the energies of passion, the refinements of life, all mysteries? But this one taught nothing, knew nothing, wished nothing. He thought her happy; and she resented this easy calm, this serene heaviness, the very happiness she gave him.
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A man, at least, is free; he may travel over passions and over countries, overcome obstacles, taste of the most far-away pleasures. But a woman is always hampered. At once inert and flexible, she has against her the weakness of the flesh and legal dependence. Her will, like the veil of her bonnet, held by a string, flutters in every wind; there is always some desire that draws her, some conventionality that restrains.
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Before marriage she thought herself in love; but the happiness that should have followed this love not having come, she must, she thought, have been mistaken. And Emma tried to find out what one meant exactly in life by the words felicity, passion, rapture, that had seemed to her so beautiful in books.
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