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Madame Bovary is Flaubert’s flawless tale of human bondage. The author’s realistic and explicit descriptions of the fall of Emma Bovary into adultery, debt and eventual death at her own hand, shocked the establishment of the time and the author and his publisher were prosecuted for irreligion and immorality. Their acquittal, after a sensational trial, ensured that the book enjoyed an immediate succèss de scandale.

However, it is the author’s treatment of style and aesthetics, as well as a new realism, which established the book not only as a milestone in the development of the modern novel but also as a classic of world literature.

ISBN 1-85326-078-9