Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert with Lydia Davis (Translator)

342 pages hardcover 1857

920 editions

fiction classics literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
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When Emma Rouault marries dull, provincial doctor Charles Bovary, her dreams of an elegant and passionate life crumble. She escapes into sentimental novels but finds her fantasies dashed by the tedium of her days. Motherhood proves to be a burden;...

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