{"product_id":"madame-bovary-gustave-flaubert-coleman-s-notes-reader-s-companion-cn-059","title":"Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert | Coleman’s Notes Reader’s Companion | CN-059","description":"\u003cp dir=\"auto\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShowing desire, dissatisfaction and the dangerous distance between romantic fantasy and everyday life in Gustave Flaubert’s masterpiece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eEmma Bovary dreams of passion, elegance, excitement and escape. Marriage to the well-meaning but conventional \u003cstrong\u003eCharles Bovary\u003c\/strong\u003e instead brings provincial routine and growing disappointment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eSearching for the life she has imagined through romantic fiction, Emma turns towards luxury, adultery and increasingly reckless spending. 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