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Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert
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adultery
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  • ISBN 9781035076529
  • Dimensions: 130 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 05 Nov 2026
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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A marriage unravels in the quiet French countryside. Gustave Flaubert’s daring portrait of adultery caused a national scandal when it was first published. This masterpiece of realist literature has lost none of its impact today.


Young Emma Bovary dreams of love and riches but her relationship with Charles, a placid country doctor, is far from satisfying. In an attempt to escape the suffocating confines of her daily life, she embarks on a series of passionate love affairs, hoping to find the romantic ideal she always imagined in the arms of new men. It soon becomes clear, however, that Emma is hurtling towards tragedy . . .

Jane Eyre, Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Lady Audley’s Secret are also available in this Macmillan Collector’s Library series of gorgeous paperbacks featuring four of the most scandalous novels ever published.
About Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen, France, in December 1821. The son of a surgeon, he is said to have begun writing at a very early age and attended school at the Lycée Pierre-Corneille in Rouen. He moved to Paris in 1840 to study law but left intermittently to travel and, after a period of ill health, departed for good in 1846. Thereafter he devoted himself to writing and completed Madame Bovary in 1856. The novel was published to great scandal and acclaim, and Flaubert became a celebrated literary figure. His reputation was cemented with Salammbô (1862) and Sentimental Education (1869). He died in 1880, leaving his last work, Bouvard et Pécuchet, unfinished.

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