Madame Bovary
READING AGE 12+
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. Beautiful Emma Bovary dreams of love and riches but her marriage to Charles, a dull country doctor, is far from satisfying. In an attempt to escape the narrow confines of her life, she embarks on a series of passionate affairs, hoping to find the romantic ideal she always dreamed about in the arms of other men, but it soon becomes clear that she is hurtling towards tragedy. Gustave Flaubert’s daring portrait of a******y caused a national scandal when Madame Bovary was first published, and this masterpiece of realist literature has lost none of its impact today.
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No one now came to see them, for Justin had run away to Rouen, where he was a grocer’s assistant, and the druggist’s children saw less and less of the child, Monsieur Homais not caring, seeing the difference of their social position, to continue the intimacy.
The blind man, whom he had not been able to cure with the pomade, had gone back t……
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