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Madame Bovary

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Flaubert's heroine, Emma, is a bored provincial housewife who abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair.

The book created a sensation when it was published - the author was prosecuted for offending public morals and later aquitted.

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Penguin
0140448187 / 9780140448184
Paperback
843.8
08/02/2002
England
English
Foreign
xvi, 302 p.
22 cm
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Reprint. This translation originally published: 1997.