Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert | Reader’s Companion | Coleman’s Notes CN-059

Enter the provincial world of Emma Bovary — and discover why her dreams of romance, luxury and escape produced one of the most important novels ever written.

Emma has been shaped by romantic literature and dreams of a life filled with passion, elegance and extraordinary experience. Instead, marriage brings provincial routine. Her attempts to find fulfilment through love, adultery, possessions, travel and social aspiration gradually entangle her in deception and catastrophic debt.

Coleman’s Notes® CN-059 takes you through the complete three-part, 35-chapter novel, combining detailed chapter guidance with accessible literary analysis.

Explore Emma’s relationships with Charles, Rodolphe and Léon; Lheureux’s manipulation of credit and debt; Homais and bourgeois self-satisfaction; the Agricultural Show; the Rouen opera and carriage episodes; marriage and gender; consumer culture; religion and science; and the novel’s devastating conclusion.

The companion goes further into the artistry that transformed Emma’s story into a landmark of literary Realism, examining Flaubert’s narrative irony, free indirect discourse, treatment of objects and interiors, recurring symbols and motifs, and his remarkable use of language and viewpoint.

It also includes Eight Extended Close Readings, the story of the 1857 trial, historical and literary context, a Translation & Edition Guide, critical debates and interpretations, comparative and independent-study ideas, 50 Reading and Discussion Questions, and Quick Revision & Recall.

64 A5 pages

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The Count of Monte Cristo • The Three Musketeers • Nana • Madame Bovary • Le Père Goriot

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