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Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary

by Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880

BookID: 2413

Language:English

Translator:Aveling, Eleanor Marx, 1855-1898

Reading Level:Reading ease score: 78.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.

Copyright Status:Public domain in the USA.

Adultery -- FictionDomestic fictionMarried women -- FictionFrance -- Fiction

Description

"Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert is a novel published in 1857. Emma Bovary, a beautiful young woman raised on romantic novels, marries a country doctor but finds provincial life suffocating. Craving luxury, passion, and high society, she seeks escape through increasingly reckless means. This groundbreaking work of literary realism caused scandal upon publication, with prosecutors attacking it as obscene. The resulting trial made it notorious before it became a bestseller and one of literature's most influential works. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Class:PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

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