Madame Bovary
Ranked #5 in Adultery, Ranked #8 in French — see more rankings.
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'Oh, why, dear God, did I marry him?'
Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and when real life continues to fail to live up to... more
'Oh, why, dear God, did I marry him?'
Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and when real life continues to fail to live up to... more
Rankings by Category
Madame Bovary is ranked in the following categories:
- #10 in France
- #44 in Gilmore Girls
- #29 in Infidelity
- #48 in Penguin Classics
- #61 in Roman
- #43 in Translated
- #98 in University
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