Madame BovaryBy: Gustave Flaubert This exquisite novel tells the story of one of the most compelling heroines in modern literature Emma Bovary. "Madame Bovary has a perfection that not only stamps it, but that makes it stand almost alone; it holds itself with such a supreme unapproachable assurance as both excites and defies judgement." Henry James Unhappily married to a devoted, clumsy provincial doctor, Emma revolts against the ordinariness of her life by