SHE JUMPED UP WITH A START.
“Someone is coming!” she said. He blew out the light.
«Have you your pistols ?””Why, to defend yourself,” replied Emma. “From your husband ? Oh, poor devil !” And Rodolphe finished his sentence with a gesture that said, “I could crush him with a flip of my finger.” Emma Bovary was a married woman, irretrievably married and utterly bored. Dashing Rodolphe Boulanger entered her life. She tried to force herself to remember that she was no longer free. But when he made love to her, she found herself trapped and helpless.
“MADAME BOVARY … a land mark in the history one of the greatest of realistic -W. Somerset Maugham
ONE OF THE GLORIES OF FRENCH LITERATURE,
Madame Bovary is the story of a dissatisfied woman bored with the tedium of everyday married life. With a candor that shocked his world, Flaubert pierced to the very core of this woman’s heart. He showed how she longed romantically but frivolously for a life filled with excitement and novelty. He showed how Emma Bovary learned that life makes all people-even beautiful women-pay for what they want. He noted the small, seemingly petty details of a sensual woman’s daily existence with realism and significance. And he told, with a fierce honesty, how a married woman suffers when she takes a lover. Madame Bovary is a brilliant book, the greatest portrait ever written of a woman’s soul in revolt against conventional society.
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