Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert with Eleanor Marx-Aveling (Translator)

272 pages first pub 1857 (view editions)

fiction classics literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
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Marcel Proust praised the "grammatical purity" of Flaubert's style, while Vladimir Nabokov said that "stylistically it is prose doing what poetry is supposed to do." Similarly, in his preface to his novel The Joke, Milan Kundera wrote, "Not until ...

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