{"product_id":"2026200011166-secondhand-madame-bovary","title":"Madame Bovary","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMadame 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48956188164315,"sku":"2026200011166-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/0bf1af65-4538-4bbe-ad90-44f33701af6d.png?v=1783498907","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200011166-secondhand-madame-bovary","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}