Yet because these are lives seen close-up, with a salt tang as of real sweat, Madame Bovary has the shape finally not of satire or of comedy, but of tragedy. “An author in his book must be like God in ...

Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and pursues scandalous sexual liaisons with ...

The writer has died at the age of 89 in Lima surrounded by his family, as communicated by his children. Mario Vargas Llosa ...

Prize-winning biographer and translator David Bellos shows why it outshines even its most illustrious contemporaries—for War and Peace, Madame Bovary ... parts of the book on British soil ...

These days, whenever I think about Google, I recall a line from Madame Bovary. “She wanted to die, but she also wanted to ...