Madame Bovary: Life in a Country Town (Oxford World's Classics)
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ISBN: 0192833995 / Publisher: Oxford University Press, May 1998
A powerful nineteenth-century French classic depicting the moral degeneration of a weak-willed woman
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Gustave Flaubert so scandalized readers with the publication of his first novel, Madame Bovary, he was put on trial for offending the public morality. This now-classic novel tells the story of a young country doctor's wife who seeks refuge from the boredom of her existence in love-affairs and romantic yearnings, ultimately finding herself doomed to disillusionment. Establishing the realistic novel in France, Madame Bovary remains a lasting fascination and a landmark in world literature.
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