Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert,Malcolm Bowie,Margaret Mauldon,Mark Overstall

madame bovary is the debut novel of french writer gustave flaubert, published in 1856. the character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. when the novel was first serialized in la revue de paris between 1 october 1856 and 15 december 1856, public prosecutors attacked the novel for obscenity. the resulting trial in january 1857 made the story...