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Title: Cliffsnotes Madame Bovary (Notes) by Gary Carey, James L. Roberts ISBN: 0822007800 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: June, 1964 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent chapter by chapter commentary on the classic novel
Comment: When teaching World Literature Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" was the first thing we read in class. Unfortunately we could not read it in the original French, because it there is one novel that should be read that way it is this one; Flaubert crafted literally crafted every sentence in the novel as if it were poetry. No translation could ever truly do it justice. While James L. Roberts' Cliffs Notes on "Madame Bovary" cannot help someone who is teaching/reading this great novel in those terms, it certainly covers all the rest of the bases. After providing a brief summary along with a listing of main and secondary characters, Roberts provides a summary and comments on each chapter in the novel. I appreciate that his comments are laid out as A, B, C, etc., so that the discrete points being made clearly stand out. These Cliffs Notes then provide character analysis of Emma Bovary, Charles Bovary, Leon, Rodolphe and Homais, followed by a look at the critical problems of theme/intent, Flabuert's realism, symbolism, irony/contrast, style, narrative technique, and social commentary. A short biography of Flabuert's life and works, suggestions for further reading, and sample examination questions are provided at the end.
The strength of this particular Cliff Notes is that is focuses more on the specific chapters with more depth than you usually find. This works especially well if you read the summary and comments AFTER reading the corresponding chapter(s) in "Madame Bovary." Flabuert's novel was scandalous in its day and is certainly the first and greatest of all the novels dealing with the "fallen woman." Final Helpful Hint for Teachers: After reading "Madame Bovary" you might have students read "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin, another controversial novel which has an extremely similar plot but was written by an American women. You can have some great compare/contrast discussions.
Rating: 5
Summary: madame bovary
Comment: An exquisitely written book about Madame Bovary's search for love, and all of the pain and hardships as a result of that search. The book is eloquently written and wonderfully entertaining- making Madame Bovary's character human and real.
Rating: 4
Summary: not ugly
Comment: Madame Bovary is a beatufully written satire on bourgeois society. Flaubert puts humor throughout the book through his characters. Each action of the characters has a hint of fakery that is very characterist of Bourgeois society. The book was not written as a guideline of how to live one's life, but a story of the real problems that the people during that time confronted. I would recommend it to anyone that wants to read one of the most well written and thoughtout books.
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Title: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Leo Bersani, Lowell Bair ISBN: 0553213415 Publisher: Bantam Classics Pub. Date: 01 July, 1982 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (Barron's Book Notes) by Lewis Warsh, Gustave Flaubert ISBN: 0812035240 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: October, 1985 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Mildred Marmur, Robin Morgan ISBN: 0451528204 Publisher: Signet Classic Pub. Date: 05 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Cliffsnotes Anna Karenina by Marianne Sturman ISBN: 0822001837 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: November, 1965 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Cliffsnotes Bronte's Wuthering Heights by Richard Wasowski ISBN: 0764585940 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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