Madame Bovary

One of the world's most celebrated novels, soon to be a major motion picture starring Mia Wasikowska

This indelible portrait of a beautiful woman's aching lust for more—more romance, more glamour, more fun—and her resulting tragic demise, is widely considered one of the finest novels ever written. Flaubert's refusal to condemn his adulterous heroine, a woman trapped as much by circumstance as by her own boundless desires, scandalized nineteenth-century France and resulted in a trial on char...