Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life
- ISBN-10
- 0679736360
- ISBN-13
- 9780679736363
- Series
- Madame Bovary
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 411
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Gustave Flaubert
Description
A powerful nineteenth-century French classic depicting the moral degeneration of a woman in reckless pursuit of her dreams
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