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Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

Fiction, Romance

Emma Bovary, a young woman adrift in the provincial French countryside, finds herself suffocated by the mundane realities of her marriage to a country doctor. Consumed by romantic fantasies gleaned from novels, she embarks on a desperate quest for excitement and social elevation through a series of reckless affairs and extravagant purchases, all while her devoted husband remains oblivious. Her relentless pursuit of an idealized existence, tragically out of step with her bourgeois reality, ultimately leads to a spiraling descent into debt, disillusionment, and despair.

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