Margaret Mauldon has worked as a translator since 1987. For OWC she
has translated Zola's L'Assommoir, Stendhal's The Charterhouse of
Parma, Huysmans' Against Nature (winner of the Scott Moncrieff
Prize for translation, 1999), Constant's Adolphe, and Maupassant's
Bel-Ami. Malcolm Bowie was previously Marshal Foch Professor of
French Literature at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of All
Souls College before he became
Master of Christ's College, Cambridge in 2002. He is the author of
books on Mallarmé, Freud and Proust, and his acclaimed study Proust
Among the Stars (1998) won the $50,000 Truman Capote Award for
Literary Criticism in 2001, the largest annual
cash prize for literary criticism in the English language.
`A superb new translation... If you've never read Madame Bovary, or
if you've only worked through it in first-year college French, you
need to sit down with this book as soon as possible. This is one of
the summits of prose art, and not to know such a masterpiece is to
live a diminished life.'
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