Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert · translated by Eleanor Marx Aveling

Reading time: about 8.5 h
Length: 115,779 words · 228 pages
Structure: 35 chapters · 1 front-matter section
Language: English (translated from French)
Era: Victorian

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Gustave Flaubert

1821–1880 · Victorian

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) was born in Rouen, the son of a surgeon, and after abandoning law lived for most of his life at Croisset, near Rouen, devoting himself to prose with a severity that became legendary. Madame Bovary (1857), Salammbô (1862), Sentimental Education (1869), Three Tales (1877) and the unfinished Bouvard and Pécuchet are his works.

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