Madame Bovary
Flaubert, Gustave / Moncrieff, Christopher
Part of Alma Classics Evergreen series, this new translation of Madame Bovary includes pictures, notes and an extensive section on Flaubert's life and work. Beautiful Emma Rouault yearns for the life of wealth, passion and romance she has encountered in popular sentimental fiction, and when her doctor, the well-meaning but awkward and unremarkable Charles Bovary, begins to pay her attention, she imagines that she may be granted her wish. Howev...