Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life.

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204 pages

Average rating: 7.17

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WitchyKiki
Nov 12, 2023
2/10 stars
I know this is an old book, and that it has inspired many great movies and tv-dramas. It was also different for it's time, I wouldn't call it progressive though... This is still a book about a woman that is written by a man, and it shows. It's as if; Poor Charles and Evil woman-Emma. If you can get through all the filler dribble, and the fact that most of the other female characters are incredibly 2-dimensional and stereotypical, while the men se...read more
E Clou
May 10, 2023
6/10 stars
It's a masterpiece, but I just didn't like it. It reminded me a lot of Anna Karenina, except that I liked Anna Karenina.

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