Gustave Flaubert’s masterpiece; one of the most scandalous, and most important, novels ever written

Beautiful Emma Bovary dreams of love and riches but her marriage to

Charles, a dull country doctor, is far from satisfying. In an attempt to

escape the narrow confines of her life she embarks on a series of

passionate affairs, hoping to find the romantic ideal she always dreamed

about in the arms of other men, but it soon becomes clear that she is

hurtling towards tragedy...

Flaubert's daring portrait of adultery caused a national scandal when Madame Bovary was first published, and this masterpiece of realist literature has lost none of its impact today.