Madame Bovary
Publisher: The Floating Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Waiheke Island
Language: eng
Format: eBook
ISBN-13: 9781775411932
Description: Madame Bovary became notorious and a bestseller after Gustave Flaubert was acquitted from charges of obscenity in 1856. It details the many adulterous affairs and extravagances of Emma Bovary, a provincial doctor's wife. Her behaviour explores the banality and emptiness of rural life.Flaubert considered himself a perfectionist, which is mirrored in the immaculate style of his writing. Madame Bovary is still considered one of the greatest literary texts of all time.