Publisher's Synopsis
The movie edition of Madame Bovary, one of the world's most celebrated, salacious novels. Emma Bovary is the original desperate housewife. Beautiful but bored, irritated and depressed that life doesn't live up to her fantasies, she spends lavishly on clothes and on her home and dives into two affairs. Emma Bovary becomes obsessed with an idealized vision of romantic love. At times, there is passion and fire but it is soon quenched by the realities of life. Depressed and heartbroken, Madame Bovary is also beguiled into debts and she moves recklessly, with tragic results. Many critics say Madame Bovary is the greatest novel ever written and is now considered a seminal work of realism. Enhanced edition with Study Guide, Character analysis & much more. Used by Harvard.
