Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life.

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Published Sep 23, 2010

Average rating: 7.32

93 RATINGS

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Community Reviews

teakenyon
Sep 24, 2025
9/10 stars
I didn't think much of the book after, but then a day or two later it really struck me. I really like how Madame Bovary is not just a tragic figure, not one to pity. She can be sympathetic, so lost and impacted by the world around her. Seen and unseen. Madame Bovary, c'est moi!
Vi Del Toro
Jun 03, 2025
8/10 stars
The drama! Let this be a lesson to all you ladies who read too many romance novels, indulge in the latest fashion trends, live beyond their means, and don’t attend to their feminine duties- lest they befall the same fate! No but forreal, this holds up to modern trash dramas and I am lovin’ it
rikaka279
Jan 14, 2025
9/10 stars
Charles is husband material.
Bijan H.
Jul 04, 2024
9/10 stars
The book looks very simple, but it has a lot to say. it has a lot of symbols that at first you may not get it, but later you will understand. each of the characters other that being a human, resemble a trait or changes in our interaction with world. for example a blind beggar resembles ugly side of life and mirrors the psychological condition of Emma Bovary that exists but she did not like to see, or the seller that makes the Bovary family go on debt is very similar to the issue we all encounter in our modern life when we get a mortgage. The book is trying to inform us that some times the reality of the life is not what you read in books or what you hear in the news.
Anilatac
Apr 16, 2024
4/10 stars
Eh. Wild ride for sure. Like ms ma'am was veeery horny and unsatisfied in her marriage. She's so dramatic from start to the very finish, which like respect, but also ma'am chill

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