Madame Bovary (Signature Editions)

Madame Bovary (Signature Editions)Gustave Flaubert's classic novel of a bored French housewife who goes to great lengths to escape the staleness of provincial life, freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Editions line. Beautiful and bored, housewife Emma Bovary is trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. A passionate reader of romance novels, she seeks to escape her existence through spending lavishly on clothing and

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before deciding to channel all his efforts into pursuing his love of bird photography

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that teach her what it is to belong

But when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped