Madame Bovary
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert stands as one of the most celebrated novels in Western literature, a scathing and psychologically acute portrait of bourgeois life in nineteenth-century provincial France. The novel chronicles the restless life of Emma Bovary, a doctor's wife whose romantic illusions, nurtured by sentimental novels, drive her into adulterous affairs and reckless financial extravagance in a desperate pursuit of passion and escape. Flaubert illustrates with devastating precision the gap between fantasy and reality, presenting Emma's self-destruction as both a personal tragedy and a ruthless indictment of the society that shaped her. Written with meticulous prose and an unflinching moral clarity, the novel remains a landmark of realist fiction, as relevant and provocative today as when it first scandalized French readers upon publication in 1857.
Author: Flaubert
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert stands as one of the most celebrated novels in Western literature, a scathing and psychologically acute portrait of bourgeois life in nineteenth-century provincial France. The novel chronicles the restless life of Emma Bovary, a doctor's wife whose romantic illusions, nurtured by sentimental novels, drive her into adulterous affairs and reckless financial extravagance in a desperate pursuit of passion and escape. Flaubert illustrates with devastating precision the gap between fantasy and reality, presenting Emma's self-destruction as both a personal tragedy and a ruthless indictment of the society that shaped her. Written with meticulous prose and an unflinching moral clarity, the novel remains a landmark of realist fiction, as relevant and provocative today as when it first scandalized French readers upon publication in 1857.