aztrophel 's review for:

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
5.0

I hate 18th - 19th Century literature. I have never enjoyed any novel from that time period that I have picked up, and yet here I am finishing this one and sobbing at the thought.

This is such a fantastic piece of literature that I struggle to understand how it doesn’t get cited more often. I don’t understand either why we bypass some of the men in this book for far less enticing individuals such as Mr Darcy or Heathcliffe.

I would recommend this to anyone. I adored it.