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by Gustave Flaubert

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Title: Madame Bovary
A Tale of Provincial Life, Volume 1 (of 2)

Author: Gustave Flaubert

Release Date: December 20, 2008 [EBook #27575]

Language: English

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MADAME BOVARY

A TALE OF PROVINCIAL LIFE

BY
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

WITH A
CRITICAL INTRODUCTION
BY
FERDINAND BRUNETIERE
Of the French Academy

AND A BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE BY
ROBERT ARNOT, M. A

VOLUME I.

SIMON P. MAGEE, PUBLISHER,
CHICAGO, ILL.
COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY
M. WALTER DUNNE

Entered at Stationers' Hall, London

CONTENTS

PART I.

I. THE NEW BOY 1

II. A GOOD PATIENT 13

III. A LONELY WIDOWER 23

IV. CONSOLATION 31

V. THE NEW MENAGE 38

VI. A MAIDEN'S YEARNINGS 43

VII. DISILLUSION 50

VIII. GLIMPSES OF THE WORLD 58

IX. IDLE DREAMS 71

PART II.

I. A NEW FIELD 85

II. NEW FRIENDS 98

III. ADDED CARES 107

IV. SILENT HOMAGE 121

V. SMOTHERED FLAMES 126

VI. SPIRITUAL COUNSEL