Day: April 12, 2013


  Madame Bovary-Gustave Flaubert: Desperate Housewife in the 1800s
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Madame Bovary-Gustave Flaubert: Desperate Housewife in the 1800s

Madame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertMy rating: 2 of 5 stars The original is in French and I read the English translation by Alan Russell (Penguin Popular Classics). I’m rather a novice with reading the classics so the writing seemed rather excessively descriptive and flowery to me. Perhaps with some books,…