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Book Review of Madame Bovary (Signet Classics)

Madame Bovary (Signet Classics)
Madame Bovary (Signet Classics)
Author: Gustave Flaubert
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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Book Description
Set amid the stifling atmosphere of nineteenth-century bourgeois France, Madame Bovary is at once an unsparing depiction of a woman's gradual corruption and a savagely ironic study of human stupidity. Provocative and deeply tragic, it is "possibly the most beautifully written book ever composed" (Frank O'Connor).