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In a Few Words. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert – Vol. 5

Classics

Getting passionate about the great classics of literature… even before reading them!

Becoming a father for the first time in his life, Pierdomenico Baccalario felt the passage of time: its repetition, the necessary one, the one to invent. He then used Flaubert’s perfect words to convey the frenzy of his protagonist to all those young readers who think of the future as an endless time that doesn’t depend on them. And, like her, they make mistakes.

  • Simple and immediate books, offering the chance to fall in love with the great works of world literature!
  • A classic that speaks to the present with surprising clarity. Through dreams, restlessness, and illusions, a story that invites reflection on time, choices, and the weight of expectations — especially when they seem endless.

From the same series (In a Few Words): Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, adapted by Sarah Rossi; The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni, The Late Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello, both adapted by Davide Morosinotto; The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov adapted by Pierdomenico Baccalario and The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis by Guido Sgardoli.

Publisher: Edizioni EL
Target: 12+
Year: 2016
Author
Pierdomenico Baccalario

Pierdomenico Baccalario has been writing children’s novels since 1997, when he won the Il Battello a Vapore literary prize with La strada del Guerriero (The Way of the Warrior) using his neighbour’s name. Since then, his bestsellers have been written under as many pseudonyms (the best known being Ulysses Moore and Irene Adler), translated into more than thirty languages and published with major Italian and foreign publishers. He has collaborated with Lucca Comics & Games for more than twenty years, has written for Repubblica, and is a columnist for the newspaper Corriere della Sera’s La Lettura literary supplement. In 2014, he founded the Book on a Tree creative agency in London.

 

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