This exquisite novel tells the story of one of the most compelling heroines in modern literature-Emma Bovary. A bored provincial housewife, abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair. A succès de scandale in its day, Madame Bovary remains a powerful and scintillating novel.A brilliant psychological portrait, Madame Bovary searingly depicts the human mind in search of transcendence. The novel is considered Flaubert's masterpiece, as well as a seminal work of