Madame Bovary
By: Gustave Flaubert
Edition: 5th printing
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Classics; Dorset Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781566193108
Subjects: Social life and customs; Suicide; Adultery; Middle class; Intellectual life; History; Fiction
Work titles: Madame Bovary
Description: Emma Bovary is one of the most compelling heroines in all of modern literature. Unhappil married to a devoted but clumsy and hopelessly provincial doctor, Emma revolts against the boredom and monotony of her life by pursuing romantic dreams of sexual passion and love. This relentless pursuit, however, becomes the ultimate source of her  undoing.

Enacted within the stifling atmosphere of bourgeois life in nineteenth-century France, Madame Bovary is both an unsparing depiction of Emma's gradual corruption, and a savage indictment of society's hypocrisy and insensitivity. Generally considered one of the best and most important novels ever written, Madame Bovary is both a masterpiece of realism and revealing psychological study of a suffering and doomed spirit.

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