Madame Bovary

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9789790241763

Collation

25 x 23 cm.: 507 p.

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Call Number

F FLA m

Madame Bovary

A powerful and engrossing novel by Flaubert. It is the story of young and beautiful Emma who is married to a doctor named Charles Bovary. Dissatisfied with her marriage, Emma cheats on her husband by having love affairs with two men – Leon Dupuis and Rodolphe Boulanger. Her desires and frustrations eventually lead her to social disgrace, poor health and financial crisis. Poignant!

Madame Bovary

Emma dreams of sophistication, wealth, and romance, but what she gets is a marriage to Charles Bovary, a provincial, middle-class doctor who is a devoted but boring husband. She tries her hardest to be a loyal and loving wife, even as she grows to resent him more and more for his insufferable dullness. Soon, though, she is seduced by the dashing Rodolphe and gives into her desires. In their aff…

Madame Bovary

Emma Bovary is a passionate reader of sentimental novels, raised on a Normandy farm and educated in a convent. She yearns for the excitement of romance. Initially, she looks to marriage for fulfillment, but life with her well-meaning husband in the provinces leaves her feeling bored and dissatisfied. In her quest for escape, she indulges in extravagant spending and eventually turns to infidelit…

Madame Bovary

In "Madame Bovary," his story of a shallow, deluded, unfaithful, but consistently compelling woman living in the provinces of nineteenth-century France, Gustave Flaubert invented not only the modern novel but also a modern attitude toward human character and human experience that remains with us to this day. One of the rare works of art that it would be fair to call perfect, "Madame Bovary" has…