Madame Bovary (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Gustave Flaubert
- First Published: 1857
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Mid-nineteenth century
- Setting: France
- Principal Characters: Charles Bovary, Emma, Léon Dupuis, Rodolphe Boulanger
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: France or French people, Love or romance, Suicide, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Doctors, Dreams, Adultery, Greed, Amputation, amputees, or prosthetics, Ambition, Debtors or creditors
- Locales: Rouen, France
The Story:
Charles Bovary was a student of medicine who married for his own advancement a woman much older than himself. She made his life miserable with her nagging and groundless suspicions. One day, Charles was called to the bedside of Monsieur Rouault, who had a broken leg, and there he met the farmer’s daughter, Emma, a beautiful but restless girl whose early education in a French convent had given her an overwhelming thirst for broader experience. Charles found his patient an excellent excuse to see Emma, whose charm and grace had captivated him. His whining wife,...
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