Madame Bovary

?? She wanted romance, beauty, and adventure - the world gave her reality. In Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert crafts one of the most daring and emotionally charged novels ever written a piercing portrait of dreams betrayed by life's limitations. Trapped in the quiet boredom of provincial France, Emma Bovary longs for passion, luxury, and meaning beyond her marriage to a dull country doctor. ...