{"product_id":"madame-bovary-eleanor-marx-aveling-9781977616258","title":"Madame Bovary","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMadame Bovary\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy Gustave Flaubert\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWorld Classics\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslated from the French by Eleanor Marx-Aveling\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMadame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMadame Bovary takes place in provincial northern France, near the town of Rouen in Normandy. Charles Bovary is a shy, oddly dressed teenager arriving at a new school where his new classmates ridicule him. Charles struggles his way to a second-rate medical degree and becomes an Officier de santé in the Public Health Service. He marries the woman his mother has chosen for him, the unpleasant but supposedly rich widow Heloise Dubuc. He sets out to build a practice in the village of Tostes (now Totes).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne day, Charles visits a local farm to set the owner's broken leg and meets his patient's daughter, Emma Rouault. Emma is a beautiful, daintily dressed young woman who has received a \"good education\" in a convent. She has a powerful yearning for luxury and romance inspired by reading popular novels. Charles is immediately attracted to her, and visits his patient far more often than necessary, until Heloise's jealousy puts a stop to the visits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eleanor Marx-Aveling,Gustave Flaubert\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1977616259\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781977616258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/25\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.99w x 0.48d","brand":"Eleanor Marx-Aveling","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47579911094527,"sku":"9781977616258","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cd87dcba-3459-43dd-80e9-9fe843b0ac83.jpg?v=1763877512","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/madame-bovary-eleanor-marx-aveling-9781977616258","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}