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Madame Bovary : patterns of provincial life /

Madame Bovary is the story of a beautiful young woman who marries a luckless and loutish country doctor. She attempts to escape the narrow confines of her life through a series of passionate affairs, hoping to find in other men the romantic ideal she has always dreamed about. Her recklessness comes...

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Main Authors: Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880.
Group Author: Steegmuller, Francis, 1906-1994
Published: Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: 1992.
©1985
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: First Vintage classics edition.
Subjects:
Physicians' spouses > Fiction.
Adultery > Fiction.
Suicide victims > Fiction.
Middle class > Fiction.
Médecins > Conjoints > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Suicidés > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Adultery.
Middle class.
Physicians' spouses.
Suicide victims.
Fiction. > Adultery.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction. > Middle class.
Fiction. > Suicide.
Fiction. > Physicians.
France > Fiction.
France.
France > Intellectual life > Fiction.
France > Social life and customs > Fiction.
Fiction.
Summary: Madame Bovary is the story of a beautiful young woman who marries a luckless and loutish country doctor. She attempts to escape the narrow confines of her life through a series of passionate affairs, hoping to find in other men the romantic ideal she has always dreamed about. Her recklessness comes back to haunt her, however, and the strong-willed and independent Emma finds herself in a desperate fight for existence.
Carrier Form: xv, 411 pages ; 21 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages xviii-xix).
ISBN: 9780679736363
0679736360
Index Number: PQ2246
CLC: I565.44
Call Number: I565.44/F587-16

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