Frau Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

"Frau Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert is a novel published in 1856-1857. Emma Bovary, a young woman trapped in provincial life, yearns for luxury and romance inspired by her beloved novels. Married to a modest country doctor, she seeks escape through infatuation and affairs while accumulating devastating debts. This seminal work of literary realism sparked an obscenity trial that made it notorious before becoming a bestseller and one of the most influential novels in history. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880
Translator Schurig, Arthur, 1870-1929
Title Frau Bovary
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Bovary
Credits Produced by Gunter Hille, K.F. Greiner and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team.
Reading Level Reading ease score: 83.7 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language German
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject Adultery -- Fiction
Subject Domestic fiction
Subject Married women -- Fiction
Subject France -- Fiction
Subject Middle class -- Fiction
Subject Physicians' spouses -- Fiction
Subject Suicide victims -- Fiction
Category Text
EBook-No. 15711
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Dec 14, 2020
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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