In a scene from this novel, the dialogue alternates between the flowery words of an attempted seduction in a town hall window and the conversation about manure coming from below.
In a scene from this novel, the dialogue alternates between the flowery words of an attempted seduction in a town hall window and the conversation about manure coming from below. This novel ends by bitterly noting that a character has just won the Legion of Honor. This novel, which pioneered the free indirect style, includes a scene of a botched clubfoot operation performed on Hippolyte by a simple country doctor. Justin, the assistant to the pharmacist Homais, unwittingly provides this novel's title character with the arsenic she uses to kill herself. The title character of this novel is married to the doctor Charles, but has affairs with LÃ©on Dupuis and Rodolphe Boulanger. For 10 points, name this novel by Gustave Flaubert.
In a scene from this novel, the dialogue alternates between the flowery words of an attempted seduction in a town hall window and the conversation about manure coming from below.
Madame Bovary