Madame Bovary | 0:e upplagan

'She wanted to die, and she wanted to live in Paris.'


This is the story of Emma, trapped in a disappointing marriage with a dull
country doctor, she dreams for a life more like the sentimental novels she reads.
In an attempt to break from the drab reality of her provincial life in Normandy,
Emma takes a lover, and disaster soon follows.


Greedy, delusional and selfish, the character of Emma Bovary scandalised
readers from the novel's first publication in 1857, yet her magnetism is
undeniable. A landmark work in modern realism, Madame Bovary vibrates with
the inner life of a woman hungry for more.


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