Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
466 pages~8 hrs
“Passion is a luxury she can't afford.”
Trapped in the suffocating boredom of provincial life, Emma Bovary seeks escape through a series of reckless affairs and a dangerous obsession with high society. Her desperate pursuit of the romantic ideals found in her novels soon spirals into a devastating struggle against debt and disillusionment.
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