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Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

Start date: August 1, 2013

Finish date: August 31, 2013

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Apr 24, 2010 Cee rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, literary-fiction

Flaubert was a contemporary of Zola, and in many ways Madame Bovary and Nana can be compared. I really prefer the story of Madame Bovary though, as Flaubert seems much more sympathetic to his main character than Zola is to Nana.

The story starts with the childhood of mister Bovary, and in a few chapters paints the years before he met Emma in broad strokes. Soon however, the focal point switches to Emma, and her dissatisfaction with her life.

Madame Bovary managed to ellicit a strong feeling of pat ...more

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Jan 17, 2010 Ahtims rated it liked it

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After a long time in my bookshelf (nearly 10 years) finally I read this Classic. I was impressed by the turn of events which lead to the moral deterioration of the initially sweet and docile Emma which finally crescended to a tragic end. As rightly said, she is one of the most unconventional heroines of all times. Sometimes she earns our sympathy, at other times our rebuke. I was immersed in the characters all the while I was reading this book - which took me nearly a week to finish

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