Madame Bovary BERGER JOHN This is the story of

This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe

evocative and unsettling

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One of the most acclaimed novels of the 21st Century

Madame Bovary BERGER JOHN This is the story ofThe notorious and celebrated novel that established modern realism For this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Flaubert invented a paradoxically original and wholly modern style. His heroine, Emma Bovary, a bored provincial housewife, abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair. A succs de scandale in its day, Madame Bovary remains a powerful and scintillating novel. This Penguin