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Madame Bovary: A Classic Novel of Desire, Illusion, and Ruin
Hardcover
RomanceClassic FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515435297
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary is one of the defining novels of nineteenth-century realism and a landmark of European literary fiction. First published in serial form in 1856 and as a book in 1857, the novel follows Emma Bovary, a provincial doctor's wife whose hunger for romance, elegance, passion, and escape leads her into adultery, debt, illusion, and ruin. With extraordinary precision, Flaubert turns domestic dissatisfaction and provincial respectability into a devastating study of desire, self-deception, social constraint, and the distance between fantasy and ordinary life.
Flaubert's style is controlled, exact, and unsentimental, making Madame Bovary not merely a story of scandal but a severe work of psychological and social observation. Emma Bovary remains one of the great tragic figures of modern fiction: restless, imaginative, foolish, trapped, and unforgettable. For readers of classic literature, French fiction, literary realism, psychological novels, nineteenth-century fiction, and novels of marriage, ambition, and disillusionment, Madame Bovary remains a central work in the modern European canon.
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