false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167191417m/19075.jpg 2175 404 '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. 2766347 book 1856 Madame Bovary (World's Classics) total:15615|5:3558|4:5086|3:4509|2:1716|1:746| 15615 55839 21939 1330 4 21 false false Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Thu Mar 27 04:43:50 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 27 05:26:25 -0700 2008 Madame Bovary when I was seventeen or so. I chose not to, and boy, am I glad I did. I couldn't possibly have done justice to the richness of Flaubert's writing as a seventeen-year-old. Moreover, I probably woul...more...]]> 1 15 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Sep 22 20:53:13 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 22 21:01:01 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 13 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1991 Sat Feb 02 14:26:41 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 02 14:32:22 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 9 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 10:29:22 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 14:00:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 7 false false Sun May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Sat Oct 13 09:32:35 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 13 09:46:46 -0700 2007
Emma Bovary es un seregoísta, caprichoso e inmaduro, y e...more...]]> 5 10 false false Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 09:16:02 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 09:16:14 -0700 2009 The CCLaP 100: In which I read a hundred so-called "classics" for the first time, then determine whether or not they deserve the label. Madame Bovary is book #26 of the series.

The story in a nutshell:
Considered by nearly everyone to be one of the best novels ever written, Fr...more...]]> 5 9 false false Sun Feb 10 11:20:55 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 11 21:29:51 -0800 2008
Emma Bovary, wife of a kind and stable country doctor, longs for the depth of feeling and the hyper-reality she experiences in reading romantic novels or attending the opera, but her reality always falls woefull...more...]]> 5 6 false false Fri Jul 25 18:03:14 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 20:27:07 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 4 false false Sun Jun 10 17:09:03 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 11 21:01:49 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 4 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 19:35:40 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 19:47:48 -0700 2008
I'd tried to read M. Bovary once before and failed utterly. This time it clicked. As I've gotten older, I'v...more...]]> 3 3 false true Mon Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 15 21:35:59 -0800 2007 Mon Feb 04 23:02:26 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 4 false false Thu Mar 13 13:32:08 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 13 13:55:43 -0700 2008 I won't waste ...more...]]> 4 4 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 02:37:51 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 17 17:57:47 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 18 13:41:16 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 18 13:57:06 -0700 2008 3 such a strange book! It was one of five novels on the preliminary reading-list sent out to students just before I started a degree in English Literature at the University of York (England) more than thirty-five years ago. Good god—what a thought! The others on the list were Scarle...more...]]> 2 2 false false Fri Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 21:25:46 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 03 06:23:54 -0700 2008
That's what the critics say. Some reviewers are more honest. They say it's admirably boring. The critics snub at them and say they don't understand the true literary value of the novel.

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Obviously, I knew what Madame Bovary was about before reading it. But I had no idea how brilliantly Flaube...more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jan 26 20:03:44 -0800 2008 Tue Jul 22 17:10:00 -0700 2008
It took me awhile to get into the book but I pressed on out of a duty to good literature. Onc...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 25 02:15:13 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 28 08:39:49 -0700 2007
I think the author wanted to make you, as the reader, dislike Emma Bovary because she didn't fit the 'ideal' stereotypical virtuous woman of the time, but I just couldn't. Emma's trials and tribulations ...more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Apr 07 11:42:58 -0700 2007 Sat Apr 07 11:50:19 -0700 2007 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=19075