Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert with Eleanor Marx-Aveling (Translator)

268 pages first pub 1857 (editions)

fiction classics literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
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Madame Bovary became notorious and a bestseller after Gustave Flaubert was acquitted from charges of obscenity in 1856. It details the many adulterous affairs and extravagances of Emma Bovary, a provincial doctor's wife. Her behaviour explores the...

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