Madame Bovary

Author: (French) Flaubert
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Publish Date: 2002-07-01
Features: The story in this book takes place in a small town in the northwest of France in the mid-19th century. One evening, the country doctor Bovary treats the emergency of the injured old man Loue, meeting his beautiful and charming daughter Emma. Bovary is over 20 years old, and the widow who married him at her mother's insistence is already 45. Soon after, the widow passed away, and he went to the Loue family to propose, and was quickly accepted. Emma is the only daughter of a wealthy farming family and received a noble-style education in a convent, deeply influenced by romantic literature. She had originally hoped to realize her romantic fantasies through marriage, but Bovary's mediocrity and incompetence greatly disappointed her.