Treasure Trove of World Literary Masterpieces -- Madame Bovary (Youth Edition) (Youth Edition)

Author: Flaubert
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Publish Date: 2002-06-01
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 an emergency case of a broken leg for the old man Loisel, meeting his daughter Emma, who is in her prime and beautiful. 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 Loisel 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.