num_pages: 291
description: Emma, the beautiful and adulterous wife of Charles Bovary, is one of the great modern heroines of fictionStifled in her marriage to a mediocre provincial doctor, Emma attempts to escape into colourful fantasies of romance until, in Rodolphe, her yearning for a lover finds its treacherous object of desire. 'Madame Bovary is myself— drawn from life,' Flaubert curiously said. Certainly Madame Bovary is his masterpiece, a consummate portrait of French bourgeois life and, caught into it, a love affair tense with irony and eroticism, pathos and despair.--back cover
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: 322014
places: Yonville-l'Abbaye, France, Tostes, Rouen
publisher: Penguin Books