Madame Bovary
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TextLanguage: English Series: Penguin ClassicsPublication details: Penguin, 2003Description: xliii, 335 p. 20 cm.ISBN: - 9780140449129
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| Book | TBS Barcelona Libre acceso | P-EN FLA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | B03160 |
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| P-EN DOY Untamed | P-EN EVA Girl, woman, other | P-EN FEL Unorthodox | P-EN FLA Madame Bovary | P-EN GIL Eat, pray, love : one woman's search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia | P-EN GOY Marks of identity | P-EN HAI The midnight library |
Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of a married woman's affair caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. Its heroine, Emma Bovary, is stifled by provincial life as the wife of a doctor. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and when real life continues to fail to live up to her romantic expectations, the consequences are devastating. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: 'Madame Bovary, c'est moi.'
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