Set amid the stifling atmosphere of nineteenth-century bourgeois France, Madame Bovary is at once an unsparing depiction of a woman's gradual corruption and a savagely ironic study of human shallowness and stupidity. Neither Emma, nor her lovers, nor Homais, the man of science, escapes the author's searing castigation; and it is the book's final profound irony that only Charles, Emma's oxlike, eternally deceived husband, emerges with a measure of human grace through his stubborn and selfless love. With its rare formal perfection, Madame Bovary represents, as Frank O'Connor has declared, "possibly the most beautifully written book ever composed; undoubtedly the most beautifully written novel...a book that invites superlatives...the most important novel of the century."
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February 5, 2006, ICON Reference
Madame Bovary (Webster's Korean Thesaurus Edition)
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May 5, 2006, ICON Reference
Madame Bovary (Webster's Chinese-Simplified Thesaurus Edition)
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February 5, 2006, ICON Reference
Madame Bovary (Webster's French Thesaurus Edition)
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February 5, 2006, ICON Reference
Madame Bovary (Webster's Spanish Thesaurus Edition)
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March 5, 2006, ICON Reference
Madame Bovary (Webster's Italian Thesaurus Edition)
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History Created December 10, 2009 · 5 revisions
| May 16, 2011 | Edited by Budelberger | merge authors |
| May 16, 2011 | Edited by Budelberger | Correct Author. |
| March 22, 2011 | Edited by Philip Tidman | added a brief synopsis of a novel |
| April 28, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Linked existing covers to the work. |
| December 10, 2009 | Created by WorkBot | add works page |