Madame Bovary
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Yellowed
Few novels have captured the suffocating tragedy of unfulfilled desire quite like Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert's masterwork of 19th-century French realism. The story chronicles Emma Bovary, a romantically idealistic doctor's wife living in the provincial French countryside, who, disillusioned by the mundane realities of marriage and rural life, pursues a series of passionate love affairs and reckless expenditures in a desperate bid to live the grand, passionate existence she has only ever encountered in novels. With merciless precision, Flaubert dissects the gap between romantic fantasy and bourgeois reality, constructing a narrative that is at once a devastating character study and a searing critique of an entire social class. Flaubert's prose is a landmark achievement in the history of the novel — sculpted, ironic, and achingly precise — earning him a reputation as one of the greatest stylists in Western literature. His revolutionary technique of *style indirect libre* (free indirect discourse) allows the reader to inhabit Emma's self-deceptions with uncomfortable intimacy, blurring the line between author and character. First published in 1857 and famously prosecuted for obscenity, Madame Bovary endures not merely as a period piece but as a timeless portrait of the human cost of living for illusions. The question Flaubert ultimately poses — whether society or the dreamer herself is to blame — remains as urgent and unanswered as ever.
Author: Gustave Flaubert
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Yellowed
Few novels have captured the suffocating tragedy of unfulfilled desire quite like Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert's masterwork of 19th-century French realism. The story chronicles Emma Bovary, a romantically idealistic doctor's wife living in the provincial French countryside, who, disillusioned by the mundane realities of marriage and rural life, pursues a series of passionate love affairs and reckless expenditures in a desperate bid to live the grand, passionate existence she has only ever encountered in novels. With merciless precision, Flaubert dissects the gap between romantic fantasy and bourgeois reality, constructing a narrative that is at once a devastating character study and a searing critique of an entire social class. Flaubert's prose is a landmark achievement in the history of the novel — sculpted, ironic, and achingly precise — earning him a reputation as one of the greatest stylists in Western literature. His revolutionary technique of *style indirect libre* (free indirect discourse) allows the reader to inhabit Emma's self-deceptions with uncomfortable intimacy, blurring the line between author and character. First published in 1857 and famously prosecuted for obscenity, Madame Bovary endures not merely as a period piece but as a timeless portrait of the human cost of living for illusions. The question Flaubert ultimately poses — whether society or the dreamer herself is to blame — remains as urgent and unanswered as ever.