Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert with Lydia Davis (Translator)

384 pages first pub 1857 (view editions)

fiction classics literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
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Madame Bovary is ideal for readers who appreciate introspective explorations of human discontent and the complexities of societal norms, wrapped in elegantly crafted prose.

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Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voraci...

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