Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert with Lydia Davis

342 pages first pub 1857 (editions)

fiction classics literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
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When Emma Rouault marries dull, provincial doctor Charles Bovary, her dreams of an elegant and passionate life crumble. She escapes into sentimental novels but finds her fantasies dashed by the tedium of her days. Motherhood proves to be a burden;...

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