num_pages: 384
description: Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. A reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, and eventually, in adultery. But her affairs bring her disappointment and the consequences are devastating.
language: English
title: Madame Bovary
titlecomplete: Madame Bovary
characters: Charles Bovary, Berthe Bovary, Rodolphe Boulanger, Léon Dupuis, Emma Bovary, Monsieur Homais
genres: Fiction, France, French Literature, Classic Literature, Literature, Romance, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 322066
places: Yonville-l'Abbaye, France, Tostes, Rouen
publisher: Penguin Classics