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Madam Bovary
Madam Bovary
Author: Gustave flaubert
Perhaps no book in the history of the novel has been more read and praised by critics than this story of Emma Bovary, a provincial French woman who could not bear the discrepancy between her romantic dreams and the dull routine of her daily life and marriage to a middle-class country doctor. For Flaubert, however, the actual writing was as impo...  more »
ISBN: 422920
Publication Date: 1991
Pages: 396
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Publisher: Random House, Inc.
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If there is one book anyone ought to read to understand the destruction and beauty of love it's Flaubert's Madam Bovary. Despite being a classic, it's as relevant today as anything written, and moreover has that enduring quality of a classic on top of being hauntingly devestating on an emotion level - heavy with retrospective considerations that in today's society we bearly recognize - though we should.


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