About the Book: Madame Bovary
Her great desire, in fact, was to have something more solid, more tangible than
love to rely upon."With a glamorized view of the world from the many romantic
novels and beauty magazines she reads, the beautiful but morally corrupt Emma
Bovary yearns for passion, wealth, and high society. But reality is way
different from her daydreams. As her marriage to the unintelligent Charles
Bovary stirs discontentment in her life, she is left saying to herself-"Oh, why,
dear God, did I marry him?" Consumed by her romantic fantasies, she indulges in
adultery. And when even her affairs fail, the denouement is tragic. A