The romance of adultery : queenship and sexual transgression in Old French literature / Peggy McCracken.

The scarlet letter : a romance / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; with an introduction by Nina Baym and notes by Thomas E. Connolly.

Madame Bovary : life in a country town / Gustave Flaubert ; translated by Gerard Hopkins ; with an introduction by Terene Cave and notes by Mark Overstall.

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The romance of adultery : queenship and sexual transgression in Old French literature / Peggy McCracken.

The scarlet letter : a romance / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; with an introduction by Nina Baym and notes by Thomas E. Connolly.

Madame Bovary : life in a country town / Gustave Flaubert ; translated by Gerard Hopkins ; with an introduction by Terene Cave and notes by Mark Overstall.