num_pages: 320
description: Madame Bovary is Flaubert's masterpiece, initially a succes de scandale and now a landmark in European literature.He took for his subject French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, and invented a paradoxically original and wholly modern style to match. His heroine is Emma, a bored provincial housewife who abandons her husband Charles Bovary to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair.(back cover)
language: English
title: Madame Bovary
titlecomplete: Madame Bovary
characters: Berthe Bovary, Monsieur Homais, Rodolphe Boulanger, Emma Bovary, Charles Bovary, Léon Dupuis
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, French Literature, Classics, France, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Romance, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 322003
places: France, Tostes, Rouen, Yonville-l'Abbaye
publisher: Penguin Books