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Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Fiction_Gift_Guide with the help of theThe award winning, nationally bestselling translation, by Lydia Davis, of one of the worlds most celebrated novels The best English version by far, because its deadpan reminds us that the book is both a great realist novel and a satire of realism. Merve Emre, The New Yorker Emma Bovary is the original desperate housewife. Beautiful but bored, she spends lavishly on clothes and on her home and embarks on two disappointing affairs in an effort to make