| Madame Bovary Contributor(s): Flaubert, Gustave (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798718264555 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2021 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 920 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 8.5" W x 11" (1.54 lbs) 300 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Book Excerpt: having succeeded in catching the name of "Charles Bovary," having had it dictated to him, spelt out, and re-read, at once ordered the poor devil to go and sit down on the punishment form at the foot of the master's desk. He got up, but before going hesitated."What are you looking for?" asked the master."My c-a-p," timidly said the "new fellow," casting troubled looks round him."Five hundred lines for all the class!" shouted in a furious voice stopped, like the Quos ego*, a fresh outburst. "Silence!" continued the master indignantly, wiping his brow with his handkerchief, which he had just taken from his cap. "As to you, 'new boy, ' you will conjugate 'ridiculus sum'** twenty times."Then, in a gentler tone, "Come, you'll find your cap again; it hasn't been stolen."*A quotation from the Aeneid signifying a threat.**I am ridiculous.Quiet was restored. Heads bent over desks, and the "new fellow" remained for two hours in an exemplary attitude, although from tRead More |
