Madame Bovary

Name: Madame Bovary
Author: Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert (1857)

“A bored doctor's wife reads too many romance novels and destroys herself, her husband, and everyone who loved her — and Flaubert makes you understand exactly how.”

EraRealist / Second Empire France

Pages329

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