Nous étions à l'étude, quand le proviseur entra, suivi d'un nouveau habillé en bourgeois et d'un garçon de classe qui portait un grand pupitre.
An edition of Madame Bovary
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Madame Bovary
1st Signet Classic printing (3)
by Gustave Flaubert
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Set amid the stifling atmosphere of nineteenth-century bourgeois France, Madame Bovary is at once an unsparing depiction of a woman’s gradual corruption and a savagely ironic study of human shallowness and stupidity. Neither Emma, nor her lovers, nor Homais, the man of science, escapes the author’s searing castigation; and it is the book’s final profound irony that only Charles, Emma’s oxlike, eternally deceived husband, emerges with a measure of human grace through his stubborn and selfless love. With its rare formal perfection, Madame Bovary represents, as Frank O’Connor has declared, “possibly the most beautifully written book ever composed; undoubtedly the most beautifully written novel…a book that invites superlatives…the most important novel of the century.”
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literary fiction, French literature, Fiction, Manners and customs in fiction, Adultery, Middle class, Physicians' spouses, Suicide victims, Married women, Social life and customs, French fiction, Technique, Suicide, Husband and wife, History, Physicians, Intellectual life, Classic Literature, Spouses, Country life, Women, Manners and customs, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), France, fiction, Physicians, fiction, Married people, fiction, Fiction, family life, Fiction, general, Trials, litigation, Literary, Young men, Unrequited love, Romance literature, Trials (Obscenity), Criticism and interpretation, Criticism, Wives, Médecins, Romans, nouvelles, Conjoints, Suicidés, Married people, Couples mariés, Vie intellectuelle, Mœurs et coutumes, Man-woman relationships, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Relations entre hommes et femmes, Triangle (Relations humaines), Roman français, Chang pian xiao shuo, Bovary, charles (fictitious character), fiction, Bovary, emma (fictitious character), fiction, Emma Bovary (Fictitious character), General, Commerce, Qing Dynasty (China), Charles Bovary (Fictitious character), Illustraties, Frans, FICTION / General, Bovary, emma (fictitious character), Bovary, emma (fictitious character)--fiction, Married women--france--fiction, Pq2246.m2 e5 2003, 843.8, French Novelists, CorrespondencePeople
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"We were studying when the headmaster came in, followed by a new boy, not yet wearing a school uniform, and a monitor carrying a large desk."
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Charles Bovary, médecin de campagne, veuf d'une mégère, fait lors d'une tournée la rencontre du père Rouault et de sa fille, Emma. Après leur mariage, Emma reste insatisfaite et rêve d'une nouvelle vie. Son premier amant lui donne le goût du luxe et fait miroiter un avenir à deux avant de l'abandonner. Une fois remise, Emma continue à faire de folles dépenses, qui peu à peu la mènent à la ruine et au déshonneur. (Résumé par Nadine)
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