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MADAME BOVARY
A TALE OF PROVINCIAL LIFE
BY
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
WITH A
CRITICAL INTRODUCTION
BY
FERDINAND BRUNETIÈRE
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 MÉNAGE 38
VI. A MAIDEN'S YEARNINGS 43
VII. DISILLUSION 50
VIII. GLIMPSES OF THE WORLD 58
IX. IDLE DREAMS 71