Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
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Madame Bovary

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Language
English
Published in
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages
234
ISBN
9781507821213
Emma Bovary, a farmer's daughter raised on sentimental novels, believes that marriage will be her entry into a world of luxury, passion, and excitement. But when she weds the well-meaning but unremarkable country doctor Charles Bovary, she finds her new life to be as crushingly dull as the provincial town they inhabit. Trapped in a reality that fails to match the romantic fantasies she so desperately clings to, Emma grows increasingly unhappy and listless, finding that not even motherhood can provide the fulfillment she seeks.

Yearning to escape the confines of her middle-class existence, Emma begins to search for the idealized life she has only read about in books. Her quest for passion and meaning leads her down a dangerous path of deception, debt, and forbidden desires, challenging the societal norms of her time. Flaubert's landmark work of realism is a profound and unflinching examination of a woman's tragic struggle against the banality of her life, exploring the devastating consequences of a reality that can never live up to the dreams that consume it.

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Madame Bovary Originally published in 1856
Original language
English
Original publisher CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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