Madame Bovary: A Scandalous Tale of Passion, Illusion, and Despair by Gustave Flaubert

💔 She wanted romance. She got reality.

Madame Bovary is Gustave Flaubert's groundbreaking masterpiece of psychological realism and one of the most controversial novels of the 19th century. With piercing detail and bold honesty, Flaubert paints the portrait of a woman who dares to dream beyond the narrow confines of provincial life—and pays the ultimate price.

🌹 Emma Bovary longs for passion—but finds only disappointment. Trapped in a dull marriage with a kind but uninspiring country doctor, Emma craves the excitement of the romance novels she adores. Her search for love, beauty, and meaning leads her into affairs, deception, and financial ruin in a world that punishes women for their desires.

🔥 A daring critique of society and a tragic portrait of longing. Boldly ahead of its time, Madame Bovary shocked readers upon publication with its unflinching look at female desire, marital disillusionment, and the emptiness of bourgeois life. Today, it stands as one of the greatest and most influential novels in world literature.

🌟 What Readers and Critics Say: "The beginning of modern fiction." — Vladimir Nabokov

"A tragic, beautiful, and deeply human novel." — The New York Review of Books

"No one ever wrote sentences like Flaubert. Pure perfection." — Amazon Reviewer

🎯 Why You'll Love This Novel: A deeply emotional and psychological portrait of romantic disillusionment

A masterwork of style, realism, and social critique

Ideal for fans of Leo Tolstoy, Edith Wharton, and Henry James

A must-read for lovers of classic literature and feminist fiction

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© 2025 Zenith Ivory Tower Publications (Ebook): 9782386917028

Translators: Eleanor Marx-Aveling

Release date

Ebook: 11 July 2025