Madame Bovary
A middle-class country wife tries to satisfy her yearnings for a luxurious life by engaging in various affairs.
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- Length
- 116,000 words
- Reading time
- About 7 hours
- Format
- EPUB, DRM-free
About the book
Madame Bovary, often ranked among the greatest novels of all time, is Flaubert’s first novel, and considered to be both his masterpiece and one of the most influential works in literary history, with authors from Henry James to Proust to Nabokov heaping it with praise.
The novel tells the story of Emma Bovary, a commoner wife of a country doctor, and her attempts to escape the drudgery of day-to-day mediocrity by engaging in adulterous affairs and overspending on luxuries. She remains unsatisfied even though her husband adores her and they want for little, and her shallowness eventually leads to their ruin.
This is the Standard Ebooks edition, carefully proofread and typeset, with a table of contents and linked footnotes.
