Flaubert, Gustave

"Flaubert's tragic novel stands as a brilliant portrayal of infidelity, an incisive psychological portrait of a woman town between duty and desire. Written with acute attention to telling detail, Madame Bovary exposes the emptiness of one woman's bourgeois existence and her failure to fill that void with fantasies, sex, and material objects. Emma's thirst for life mirrors the universal human impulse for idealized fulfillment."--back cover.

Emma Bovary, the wife of a provincial doctor, seeks to escape her boredom by indulging in romantic fantasies and adulterous affairs.

Presents Gustave Flaubert's 1857 novel about a young woman of the bourgeois class whose unhappiness in her marriage leads her to several affairs and a tragic fate. Includes a scholarly introduction and documents from the trial in which Flaubert was accused of offending public morality.

The story of Emma Bovary, the bored wife of a provincial doctor whose desires and illusions are shattered when reality catches up with her.

Presents the story of Emma Bovary, a doctor's wife who becomes bored with marriage and motherhood, and embarks upon a series of affairs in search of passion and excitement, and then finds herself in a downward spiral to destruction.

Contains the complete text of Flaubert's classic novel along with his letters describing the work and sixteen critical essays that address the novel's central themes.