Author(s): Gustave Flaubert Publisher: Gustave Flaubert
Book DescriptionMadame Bovary takes place in local northern France, near the town of Rouen in Normandy. The story starts and ends with Charles Bovary, a stolid, kindhearted man without much ability or ambition. As the novel opens, Charles is a shy, oddly dressed teenager arriving at a new school amidst theridicule of his new classmates. Later, Charles struggles his way to a second-rate medical degree and becomes an officer de santé in the Public Health Service. His mother chooses a wife forhim, an unpleasant but supposedly rich widow named Heloise Dubuc, and Charles sets out to build a practice in the village.
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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Book DescriptionMadame Bovary takes place in local northern France, near the town of Rouen in Normandy. The story starts and ends with Charles Bovary, a stolid, kindhearted man without much ability or ambition. As the novel opens, Charles is a shy, oddly dressed teenager arriving at a new school amidst theridicule of his new classmates. Later, Charles struggles his way to a second-rate medical degree and becomes an officer de santé in the Public Health Service. His mother chooses a wife forhim, an unpleasant but supposedly rich widow named Heloise Dubuc, and Charles sets out to build a practice in the village.
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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert