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| Painstakingly detailed, incredibly well executed Flaubert's seminal novel took five long years of hard work to achieve.
The result is a piece of work that from the opening pages transports the... |
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| This exquisite novel tells the story of one of the most compelling heroines in modern literature--Emma Bovary. Unhappily married to a devoted, clumsy provincial doctor, Emma revolts against the... |
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Unhappily married to a devoted, clumsy provincial doctor, Emma revolts against the ordinariness of her life by pursuing dreams of ecstasy and love. But her sensuous and sentimental desires lead her... |
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A brilliant psychological portrait, Madame Bovary searingly depicts the human mind in search of transcendence. Who is Madame Bovary? Flaubert's answer to this question was superb: "Madame Bovary,... |
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Within a framework of formal perfection, Gustave Flaubert depicts the oppressive atmosphere of bourgeois life in nineteenth-century France. As it traces the progressive corruption of a woman... |
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| As a provocative tale of passion and complacency, ideals and self-delusions, Madame Bovary (1857) remains a milestone in European fiction. In telling his story of Emma Bovary—a farmer’s daughter... |
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