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Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1857
Originally in
Originally in French
Pages
Pages 350

A doctor's wife raised on romantic novels chases the life they promised through adulteries and debt in provincial France, and the gap between the dream and the town closes on her.

Human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars.
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert

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