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Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
Categories: Classics Novel Women's Fiction
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Gustave Flaubert's 1856 novel, for all of its modern sense of honesty and power, could have been written yesterday. Here we have one of literature's tragic heroines—the beautiful Emma Bovary—and the dark temptations that draw her down a fatal path. Emma is besieged by boredom as she yawns away her days as a country doctor's wife in a town where nothing seems to happen. Seeking change and excitement, Emma comes up with a desperate and dangerous solution: the pursuit of excess. She embarks on tumultuous affairs with two different lovers, making extravagant purchases and living a lie more reckless than any of her neighbors would ever dare. Emma's husband is clueless to her sins, but when an unpaid bill for one of Emma's shopping trips arrives at home, he begins to understand what has happened. Emma's crimes of passion are swift to catch up with her, bringing her glamorous lifestyle to a screeching halt and tearing her life to pieces in a terrifying finale.
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To Marie-Antoine-Jules Senard Member of the Paris Bar, Ex-President of the National Assembly, and Former Minister of the Interior Dear and Illustrious Friend, Permit me to inscribe your name at the head of this book, and above its dedication; for it is to you, before all, that I owe its ...
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