Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary is Gustave Flaubert's novel, serialised in the Revue de Paris in 1856 and published in two volumes by Michel Lévy Frères in Paris in April 1857. Emma Bovary, a bored provincial wife, is ruined by affairs and debt. Flaubert was tried for immorality and acquitted.
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- Michel Lévy Frères, Paris, 1857
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- Madame Bovary, Wikipedia, 2026 (en.wikipedia.org)
- Madame Bovary, first edition, first issue, Bauman Rare Books (baumanrarebooks.com)
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