Madam Bovary
Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment.
GenresAdulteryFictionMiddle classPhysicians' spousesSuicide victimsFrance
360 pages
English edition · First published 1995 by Penguin · ISBN 9780140621792
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