From the Bookshelf of Never too Late to Read Classics…

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

Start date: February 1, 2022

Finish date: February 28, 2022

Discussion: Lesser Know Classics

Find A Copy At

Libraries

Group Discussions About This Book

Showing 2 of -6 topics — 2,680 comments total

Lesser Know Classics

* 2025 Must Read Lesser Known Classics: Scheduled Reads
By Lesle , Appalachian Bibliophile · 72 posts · 204 views

last updated Sep 06, 2025 07:14AM

2025 December: Quicksand by Nella Larsen
By Lesle , Appalachian Bibliophile · 16 posts · 19 views

last updated Dec 03, 2025 11:00AM

showing 10 of 10 topics view all »

Other topics mentioning this book

What Classic are you reading now?
By Lesle , Appalachian Bibliophile · 5966 posts · 2103 views

last updated 7 hours, 42 min ago

2019 October: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
By Lesle , Appalachian Bibliophile · 70 posts · 34 views

last updated Oct 31, 2019 08:54PM

* 2022 Genre & Novelist Reads
By Lesle , Appalachian Bibliophile · 110 posts · 586 views

last updated Nov 25, 2021 03:58AM

2022 February: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
By Lesle , Appalachian Bibliophile · 66 posts · 66 views

last updated Mar 12, 2022 05:30AM

This topic has been closed to new comments.

* 2022: 700,000 Page Challenge
By Lesle , Appalachian Bibliophile · 1853 posts · 825 views

last updated Jan 03, 2023 09:27AM

* 2023: 800,000 Page Challenge
By Lesle , Appalachian Bibliophile · 1368 posts · 603 views

last updated Jan 01, 2024 07:50AM

2023 Translated Classics Challenge
By Rosemarie , Northern Roaming Scholar · 155 posts · 191 views

last updated Jan 01, 2024 10:05AM

The Library of Jack London
By Lesle , Appalachian Bibliophile · 6 posts · 15 views

last updated Oct 09, 2025 11:35AM

F. Scott Fitzgerald's College of One Reading List
By Lesle , Appalachian Bibliophile · 16 posts · 23 views

last updated Oct 10, 2025 03:10AM

* 2025: 1,000,000 Page Challenge
By Lesle , Appalachian Bibliophile · 1200 posts · 701 views

last updated 5 hours, 47 min ago

What Members Thought

Sep 05, 2014 Nadine rated it it was ok

Shelves: read-in-2014, ebooks-2014

Emma heiratet den bescheiden lebenden und denkenden Arzt Charles Bovary, ihre Mädchenträume aus dem Kloster von einem zauberhaften Leben in finanzieller Sorglosigkeit zerbröckeln schnell. Auch ein Kind kann ihr keine wahre Freude schenken. Sie stürzt sich in Affairen, immer auf der Suche nach dem wahren Glück.

Leider gab es keine Charaktere, mit denen ich mitfiebern konnte. Zu Emma habe ich nie einen Draht gefunden und ihr Verhalten spielt sich leider allzu oft auf einer sehr kindlichen Ebene ab. ...more

1 like · Like · see review

Aug 11, 2013 GONZA rated it liked it

Shelves: re-read

Riletto in francese a causa della sparizione della mia copia italiana so benissimo dove. Anche stavolta la signora Emma mi ha lasciato una tristezza di fondo, non che non me lo potessi aspettare, ma credevo che, siccome era una rilettura, mi avrebbe fatto meno effetto. Ora lo scopo é quello di scriverci un paper di almeno 800 parole paragonando Flaubert a Kant, Rousseau e Marx e io sono assolutamente senza idee e non so dove mettere le mani.....

1 like · Like · see review