Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics) - Gustave Flaubert

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7.4	Listal rating

Manufacturer : Penguin Classics
Release date : 30 January 2003
ISBN-10 : 0140449124 | ISBN-13 : 9780140449129

Fiction (2), French (2), Classic (2), Novel (1), Unread (1), Social Commentary (1), Women (1), Consumption (1), Folly (1), Romance (1), Tragedy (1)

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For this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Flaubert invented a paradoxically original and wholly modern style. His heroine, Emma Bovary, a bored provincial housewife, abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair. A succès de scandale in its day, Madame Bovary remains a powerfu ... (more)

Written by

Gustave Flaubert

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