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Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert · 1856

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When Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary she imagines she will pass into the life of luxury and passion that she reads about in sentimental novels and women's magazines. But Charles is a dull country doctor, and provincial life is very different from the romantic excitement for which she yearns. In her quest to realize her dreams she takes a lover, and begins a devastating spiral into deceit and despair.

Genre
romanceromanceMore like thisLess of thishistorical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of thisVictorianVictorianMore like thisLess of thisliterary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of this
Themes
womenwomenMore like thisLess of thisfeminismfeminismMore like thisLess of this
Setting
19th century19th centuryMore like thisLess of thisVictorianVictorianMore like thisLess of thisFranceFranceMore like thisLess of thisNormandyNormandyMore like thisLess of thisParisParisMore like thisLess of this
Mood
emotionalemotionalMore like thisLess of thissadsadMore like thisLess of thisthought provokingthought provokingMore like thisLess of thisdarkdarkMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 329 pages

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