bovary

Madame Bovary – un grand roman de l’écrivain français Gustave Flaubert. Le personnage principal, Emma Bovary, souffre de l’incapacité de réaliser ses rêves d’une vie sociale brillante et pleine de passions romantiques. Au lieu de cela, elle mène la vie monotone de la femme d’un pauvre médecin de province. Mais toutes ses tentatives pour sortir du monde sombre sont vouées à l’échec.

Considered by some to be her finest work, Edith Wharton’s „Summer” created a sensation when first published in 1917, as it was one of the first novels to deal honestly with a young woman’s sexual awakening. Seventeen-year-old Charity Royall is desperate to escape life with her hard-drinking adoptive father. Their isolated village stifles her, and his behavior increasingly disturbs her. When a young...