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Madame Bovary, often ranked among the greatest novels of all time, is considered Gustave Flaubert’s masterpiece, with authors from Henry James to Proust to Nabokov heaping it with praise.
The novel tells the story of Madame Bovary, a commoner wife of a country doctor, and her attempts to escape the drudgery
...Charles Bovary, après avoir suivi ses études dans un lycée de province, s'établit comme officier de santé et se marie à une riche veuve. À la mort de celle-ci, Charles épouse une jeune femme, Emma Rouault, élevée dans un couvent, vivant à la ferme avec son père (un riche fermier, patient du jeune médecin). Emma se laisse séduire par Charles et se marie avec lui. Fascinée par ses lectures romantiques, elle rêve d’une nouvelle vie,
...Emma Bovary, daughter of an uneducated farmer and wife of a dull doctor in northern France, harbors a passion for everything beyond her grasp—sophistication, romance, love, and deliverance from her banal provincial life. Motivated by the primal, idealized, and vain, she seeks adventure. And with each new endeavor, Emma sets for herself an inevitable and inescapable trap.
Condemned as an affront to public morals,
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