A powerful nineteenth-century French classic depicting the moral degeneration of a woman in reckless pursuit of her dreams
Emma Bovary, bored by her provincial life, is drawn to a more sophisticated world that will demand a terrible price.
When the novel was first serialized in Revue de Paris between 1 October 1856 and 15 December 1856, public prosecutors attacked the novel for obscenity. The resulting trial in January 1857 made the story notorious.
How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary (1856) is the French writer Gustave Flaubert's debut novel.
When the novel was first serialized in La Revue de Paris between 1 October 1856 and 15 December 1856, public prosecutors attacked the novel for obscenity. The resulting trial in January 1857 made the story notorious.
Madame Bovary (full French title: Madame Bovary. Moeurs de province) is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856.
Madame Bovary (French: Madame Bovary) is a world-famous French literature. Authored by French author Gustave Flaubert and first published in 1857, the content of the life of a married woman dissatisfied with family life.
Madame Bovary
Length: 2 acts.
Includes a biographical sketch of Thomas Hardy, a synopsis of the story, Hardy's philosophy of life, character sketches, and more.
Madame Bovary: costumbres provincianas
A powerful nineteenth-century French classic depicting the moral degeneration of a weak-willed woman
Madame Bovary is the French writer Gustave Flaubert's debut novel. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life.
Flaubert's classic tale, in which the title character turns to spending and a series of affairs to combat the boredom of married life and, heartbroken and crippled by debts, takes drastic action that results in tragedy.
The head-master made a sign to us to sit down. Then, turning to the class-master, he said to him in a low voice— "Monsieur Roger, here is a pupil whom I recommend to your care; he'll be in the second.
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In reading Madame Bovary, one experiences a work that remains genuinely revolutionary almost a century and a half after its creation.
Read & Co. Classics is republishing this novel now in a brand new edition complete with additional essays on Flaubert and his works, including the transcript of the court hearing that resulted in Flaubert being put on trail for obscenity.
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Madame Bovary