Madame Bovary

The novel "Madame Bovary," once condemned for its assault on public morality, has been astonishing and delighting readers for a century and a half. Dreams of an "ideal marriage" have been shattered, the "prince" imagined by Emma turned out to be a boring provincial doctor, and she, gasping in a dreary, desolate marriage, began to seek happiness in "romantic" love affairs out of despair... Thus begins the plot of one of the most significant works in the history of French literature, a frequently adapted masterpiece about a "little tragedy" of a young woman.