Would this misery go on forever Was there no escape And yet she was every bit as good as all those other women who led happy lives When Emma Rouault 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

Would this misery go on forever Was there no escape And yet she was every bit as good as all those other women who led happy lives When Emma Rouault 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 a dull 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 and begins a devastating spiral into deceit and despair Flaubert s novel scandalized its readers when it was first published in 1857 and it remains unsurpassed in its unveiling of character and society In this new translation Margaret Mauldon perfectly captures the tone that makes Flaubert s style so distinct and admired One of the acknowledged masterpieces of 19th century realism Madame Bovary is revered by writers and readers around the world a mandatory stop on any pilgrimage through modern literature Flaubert s legendary style his intense care over the selection of words and the shaping of sentences his unmatched ability to convey a mental world through the careful selection of telling details shine on every page of this marvelous work Now the award winning translator Margaret Mauldon has produced a modern translation of this classic novel one that perfectly captures the tone that makes Flaubert s style so distinct and admired Madame Bovary scandalized its readers when it was first published in 1857 And the story itself remains as fresh today as when it was first written a work that remains unsurpassed in its unveiling of character and society It 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 romant