Neither Emma, nor her lovers, nor Homais, the man of science, escapes the author’s searing castigation, and it is the book’s final profound irony that only Charles, Emma’s oxlike, eternally deceived husband, emerges with a measure of human grace through his stubborn and selfless love.

Set amid the stifling atmosphere of 19th-century bourgeois France, Madame Bovary is at once an unsparing depiction of a woman’s gradual corruption and a savagely ironic study of human shallowness and stupidity. The artwork used for the cover is 'Henriette Sontag' by Paul Delaroche.Published in 1850, ~116,000 words.

Production notes: This ebook of Madame Bovary was published by Global Grey on the 26th May 2018 and updated on the 4th August 2021. This is a translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling. This book has 230 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1857. Part of Anne Haight's List of Banned Books. № 22 in The Guardian's 100 Greatest Novels Of All Time. № 10 in 20 Classic Books You Must Read Before You Die. It is considered one of the greatest novels ever written - author Henry James said that Madame Bovary 'has a perfection that not only stamps it, but that makes it stand almost alone: it holds itself with such a supreme unapproachable assurance as both excites and defies judgment'. The story ends tragically when the debts are called in. All the while, Emma, with her love for luxury goods, has been getting her and her husband into more and more debt, using credit from the manipulative Monsieur Lheureux. The second is Léon Dupuis, a clerk who introduces Emma to poetry and who falls in love with her. The first with Rodolphe Boulanger, a wealthy local man who seduces Emma but grows bored of her. In contrast to Charles, Emma is very high maintenance and though her husband does his best to keep her from feeling bored with marriage and motherhood, it doesn't work, and she has two affairs. After his wife dies unexpectedly, Charles marries Emma. It tells the story of Charles Bovary, who has an arranged marriage with a rich widow, but who falls for Emma Roualt. After the trial and acquittal of the author, Madame Bovary became a bestseller. It was Flaubert's first novel and before it was published in book form, it was serialised in Revue de Paris where it was prosecuted for obscenity. Madame Bovary by French author Gustave Flaubert was originally published in 1857. Madame Bovary Gustave FlaubertĪvailable to download for free in PDF, epub, and Kindle ebook formats. Buy the entire collection (over 2,400 ebooks) for only £15.

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