Madame Bovary

New York: Popular Publishing - Popular Classics Library, 2001. First Printing . Mass Market. Fine. 5" x 8. 224 Pages. Glossy laminated boards over maroon. Tight, bright, pointed corners, and no stamps or marks. First published in 1857 this is a story of adultery and unhappy love. Emma Bovary is married to Charles Bovar, a physician. Emma was a girl longing for adventure and lives for with her romantic dreams. She is exasperated because Charles does not seem to notice her and her needs. His conviction that he was making her happy seemed to her an insult, and his sureness on this point ingratitude. To her he became the obstacle and cause of all her misery. Emma seeks release from the boredom of her marriage from love affairs with two men - with the lawyer Léon Dupuis and then with Rodolphe Boulanger. Emma wants to leave her husband for him. He rejects the idea and Emma becomes ill. After she has recovered, she starts again her relationship with Léon, who works now in Rouen. They meet regularly at a hotel. Emma is in heavy debts because of her lifestyle and she poisons herself with arsenic. Charles Bovary dies soon after her and their daughter Berthe is taken care of by poor relatives. Berthe tries to earn her living by working in a factory. - The novel created an outrage. Flaubert was even tried and acquitted on charges of immorality for it.