Madame Bovary
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By Gustave Flaubert Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary, a dull provincial doctor, expecting the life she has read about in novels, and finds Yonville instead.
| ISBN | 9780140449129 |
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| Language | English |
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By Gustave Flaubert
Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary, a dull provincial doctor, expecting the life she has read about in novels, and finds Yonville instead.
She takes a lover, then another, and borrows against a household she does not control to pay for the version of herself she wants to be. Flaubert was prosecuted for obscenity and acquitted. The book is usually credited with inventing literary realism, and it is much colder than that description suggests.
First published 1856
