Download or read book Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life written by Gustave Flaubert and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary she imagines she will pass into the life of luxury and passion that she reads about in sentimental novels and women's magazines. But Charles is a dull country doctor, and provincial life is very different from the romantic excitement for which she yearns. In her quest to realize her dreams she takes a lover, and begins a devastating spiral into deceit and despair.