Download or read book Madame Bovary - Illustrated Edition written by Gustave Flaubert and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-19 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madame Bovary tells the tragic story of the romantic but empty-headed Emma Rouault. When Emma marries Charles Bovary, she imagines she will pass into the life of luxury and passion that she reads about in sentimental novels and women's magazines. But Charles is an ordinary country doctor, and provincial life is very different from the romantic excitement for which she yearns. In her quest to realize her dreams she takes a lover, Rodolphe, and begins a devastating spiral into deceit and despair. And Flaubert captures every step of this catastrophe with sharp-eyed detail and a wonderfully subtle understanding of human emotions.(Feedbooks.com)