Madame Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life (Penguin Popular Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0140621792 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0140621792 Global Overview for this book
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Synopsis
The central character of this story is the bored wife of a provincial doctor whose desires and illusions are shattered. The author vents his profound contempt for the bourgeois mentality, but betrays a certain sympathy for the human frailty of Emma Bovary.
From the back of the book:
Flaubert's story of the beautiful Madame Bovary scandalized Paris when it was first published in 1856. Seen as flagrantly amoral, its writer was himself prosecuted, & after a sensational trial, acquitted. Today, however, his novel is recognised as a milestone in European literature.
The central character of this story is the bored wife of a provincial doctor whose desires and illusions are shattered. The author vents his profound contempt for the bourgeois mentality, but betrays a certain sympathy for the human frailty of Emma Bovary.
From the back of the book:
Flaubert's story of the beautiful Madame Bovary scandalized Paris when it was first published in 1856. Seen as flagrantly amoral, its writer was himself prosecuted, & after a sensational trial, acquitted. Today, however, his novel is recognised as a milestone in European literature.
