Madame Bovary

"Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionizes it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss." ― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary Madame Bovary (1856) by Gustave Flaubert recounts the story of Emma, who marries a pitiful doctor named Charles Bovary. But dissatisfied with the ordinary and average life that she leads, she begins seeing other men and has numerous affairs...