Madame Bovary [Penguin Readers]

by Gustave Flaubert

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Emma Bovary is the beautiful wife of Charles Bovary and one of the great heroines of literature. Emma attempts to escape her tedious marriage by entering into romantic fantasies, but her longing for a lover has disastrous results. A portrait of French bourgeois life, Madame Bovary is a masterpiece of world literature.… (more)

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Emma Bovary is the beautiful wife of Charles Bovary and one of the great heroines of literature. Emma attempts to escape her tedious marriage by entering into romantic fantasies, but her longing for a lover has disastrous results. A portrait of French bourgeois life, Madame Bovary is a masterpiece of world literature.

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