With a glamorised 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.
About the Author
Born in December 1821, in Rouen, France, Gustave Flaubert began his literary career at a very young age. His first published work appeared in a review in 1837. November, a novella, completed in 1842, was his first finished work Salammbo, his next novel, was completed in 1862. Flaubert took seven years to write his next book, Sentimental Education, which was his last complete novel. Flaubert died in 1880, aged fifty-eight, after suffering from a cerebal haemorrhage and was buried in the family vault in the cemetery of Rouen.