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Review
"Madame Bovary is like the railroad stations erected in its epoch: graceful, even floral, but cast of iron."
--John Updike
Random House Web Site, May, 2002
Summary
Bored and unhappy in a lifeless marriage, Emma Bovary yearns to escape from the dull circumstances of provincial life. Powerful, deeply moving examination of the moral degeneration of a middle-class Frenchwoman.
