Madame Bovary

Charles Bovary’s first day at school begins with a ridiculous cap, a stumbling introduction—and a whole classroom roaring his name. Can a boy so easily made an object of laughter ever find the life he longs for?

In provincial France, Charles grows from an awkward schoolboy into a country doctor, shaped by a blustering father and a mother who dreams of better things for him. Then he marries Emma, whose romantic reading has filled her mind with passion, luxury, and grander horizons than their quiet life can offer. As Charles settles into the ordinary, Emma begins to chafe against it—and the distance between the life she imagined and the one she has becomes impossible to ignore. What will she risk to make reality answer to her dreams?

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