Madame Bovary.

Flaubert's novel "Madame Bovary" (1856) is one of the key works of realist literature and an unquestionable masterpiece of European literature. The concise, simple, yet tragic plot of Emma and Charles Bovary's married life in the provinces is balanced by Flaubert's stylistic perfectionism. Literary scholars point to themes such as the female "outraged consciousness," morality and immorality, the collapse of illusions, the rigidity of bourgeois life, and distorted dreams of a higher society.