Madame Bovary

A luminous novel, masterfully crafted through evocative impressionist landscapes of Normandy and the sensibility of 19th Century France.Flaubert searches for an underlying beauty and meaning within the complexities of bourgeois society. For its depictions of amorality, Gustave Flaubert narrowly avoided imprisonment upon publication.The epitome of Flaubert''s works, considered to be the greatest novel ever written.