Home › Literature › Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert · Eleanor Marx Aveling
About this book
This nineteenth-century French novel follows Emma Bovary, a provincial doctor's wife whose romantic longings and pursuit of a more exciting life lead her toward affairs, debt, and ruin. It suits readers interested in literary realism and classic European fiction.
Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.
Biography from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Portrait: via Wikipedia (see source).
More by Gustave Flaubert
Browse all →
La tentation de Saint Antoine
Gustave Flaubert
A Simple Soul
Gustave Flaubert
Herodias
Gustave Flaubert
Salammbo
Gustave Flaubert
Trois contes
Gustave Flaubert
Bouvard et Pécuchet
Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
George Sand · Gustave Flaubert +1
More in Literature
Browse all →
Gambara
Honoré de Balzac
A bankrupt heart, Vol. 2 (of 3)
Florence Marryat
Les Demi-Vierges
Marcel Prévost
The Hidden Masterpiece
Honoré de Balzac · Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Mugby Junction
Charles Dickens
La Main Gauche
Guy de Maupassant
L'inutile beauté
Guy de Maupassant
Michael's Crag
Grant Allen