Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert Penguin Books 2002

Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert Penguin Books 2002

Flaubert's heroine, Emma, is a bored provincial housewife who abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair.

The book created a sensation when it was published - the author was prosecuted for offending public morals and later aquitted.