by
Gustave Flaubert
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Madame Bovary (1856) is Gustave Flaubert's first published novel and is, nonetheless, considered by many critics to be a masterpiece. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial...