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Madame Bovary (Barnes & Noble Classics)
Madame Bovary - Barnes & Noble Classics
Author: Gustave Flaubert, Eleanor Marx Aveling (Translator)
The publication in 1857 of Madame Bovary, with its vivid depictions of sex and adultery, incited a backlash of immorality charges. The novel tells the story of Emma Bovary, a doctor's wife bored and unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood. She embarks upon a series of affairs in search of passion and excitement, but is unable to achieve the s...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781593080525
ISBN-10: 1593080522
Publication Date: 3/28/2005
Pages: 368
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Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Book Type: Paperback
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Madame Bovary is a nineteenth century French novel of love, adultery, death and debt. The tale is a story of archetypal characters: the adulterous woman, Emma; the orphan, Berthe; the country doctor, Charles; the chatty pharmacist, Homais; the sophisticated lover, Rudolpho. Emma Bovary is a bored country housewife who finds little sustenance in her life. Instead, she turns to an adulterous relationship with a sophisticated gentlemen and later with a Paris clerk. She faints after finding out that her lover will not run away with her, and takes to her bed. She ignores her husband and child while reading romance novels and taking up with a new lover in Paris. She spends her money on every luxury, and plunges into a cycle of debt that she cannot control. I found this to be a psychological tale of adultery and the life of the 18th century French middle class. A classic must-read with a message for today.
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