Madame Bovary, originally published as Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners, is a
novel by French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856 The eponymous
character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness
of provincial life.
Madame Bovary takes place in provincial Northern France, near the town of Rouen
in Normandy. Charles Bovary is a shy, oddly dressed teenager arriving at a new
school where his new classmates ridicule him. He str ...