Madame Bovary
Subtitle: provincial ways
Edition: large print edition (2)
Publisher: Kennebec Large Print
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 631
ISBN-13: 9781410436603
Copyright date: 2010
Description: Emma Bovary is the original desperate housewife. Beautiful but bored, she is married to the provincial doctor Charles Bovary yet harbors dreams of an elegant and passionate life. Escaping into sentimental novels, she finds her fantasies dashed by the tedium of her days. Motherhood proves to be a burden; religion is only a brief distraction. In an effort to make her life everything she believes it should be, she spends lavishly on clothes and on her home and embarks on two disappointing affairs. Soon heartbroken and crippled by debts, Emma takes drastic action with tragic consequences for her husband and daughter. --back cover