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 ...

Adapted from Flaubert's classic novel, Madame Bovary tells the tragic story of Emma (Wasikowska), a young beauty who impulsively marries a small-town doctor (Lloyd-Hughes) to leave her father's ...

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 ...

French author Gustave Flaubert is on trial for writing the "indecent" novel "Madame Bovary." To prove that he wrote a moral tale, Flaubert narrates the story of beautiful Emma Bovary, an ...