Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

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Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert with J. Lewis May (Translator), Pierre Brissaud (Illustrator)

348 pages hardcover 1857

920 editions

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First published in 1856, Madame Bovary was a tremendous success, ushering literary realism into the latter half of the 19th century. It is the story of Emma and Charles Bovary, whose marriage becomes dull in the rural north of France. Madame Bovar...

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