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Madame Bovary(eBook #2413)

by Gustave Flaubert

Emma Bovary, married to a dull country doctor, has read too many romantic novels and tries to live like their heroines, with lovers and debts. Flaubert was put on trial for its immorality in 1857, and acquitted. He spent years on its sentences, and it shows.

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Reading time

About 7 hr 45 min

Where to find it

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Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #2413. In the public domain in the United States.