Madame Bovary Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition by Gustave Flaubert Paperback Book 9780143106494

Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life She longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance in voracious spending and eventually in adultery But even her affairs bring her disappointment and the consequences are devastating