Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

300 pages first pub 1857 (view editions)

fiction classics literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
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Madame Bovary is ideal for readers who appreciate introspective explorations of human discontent and the complexities of societal norms, wrapped in elegantly crafted prose.

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"Perhaps we identify with Emma because we too feel an emptiness at the center of things--an emptiness we try to fill with books, with fantasies, with sex, with things. Her yearning is nothing more or less than the human condition in the modern wor...

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