Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

448 pages first pub 1857 (editions)

fiction classics literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
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A subject of scandal during its publication, the novel had to overcome the censorship by Napoleon III before it became the pioneer of literary realism. Emma Bovary represents the rebellion against the corset-like, bourgeoise society of nineteenth-...

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