Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

361 pages first pub 1857 (editions) user-added

fiction classics literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
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Flaubert's story of the beautiful Madame Bovary scandalized Paris when first published in 1856. Seen as flagrantly amoral, its writer was himself prosecuted and, after a sensational trial, acquitted. Today, however, his novel is recognized as a mi...

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