{"product_id":"madame-bovary-gustave-flaubert-1","title":"Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"214\" data-end=\"336\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"214\" data-end=\"229\"\u003eMadame Bovary\u003c\/em\u003e is Flaubert’s masterpiece, initially a \u003cem data-start=\"271\" data-end=\"291\"\u003esuccès de scandale\u003c\/em\u003e and now a landmark in European literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"338\" data-end=\"649\"\u003eHe took for his subject French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, and invented a paradoxically original and wholly modern style to match. His heroine is Emma, a bored provincial housewife who abandons her husband Charles Bovary to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"651\" data-end=\"1121\"\u003e‘Emma Bovary is the first in a procession of troubled and insubordinate young wives; the model for those adulterous bourgeois heroines – Thérèse Raquin, Anna Karenin, Hedda Gabler, Sue Bridehead, Ursula Brangwen and Molly Bloom,’ writes Geoffrey Wall in the introduction to his illuminating new translation. ‘We are drawn, with great skill, into a sustained imaginative contact with Emma. We feel that we are inside her head, under her skin, as we read.’\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Story Station","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47499632836847,"sku":"MAD04558","price":64.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0650\/6538\/6223\/files\/asdasda_b541833f-6ec4-44bd-90f5-6d8d60a0d960.jpg?v=1769028208","url":"https:\/\/www.thestorystation.co.za\/products\/madame-bovary-gustave-flaubert-1","provider":"The Story Station","version":"1.0","type":"link"}