What is Madame Bovary?
{{italic title}} [[File:Gustave Flaubert par Pierre François Eugène Giraud.jpg|thumb|Gustave Flaubert]] '''''Madame Bovary''''' is a [[novel]] by [[Gustave Flaubert]]. It was published in 1857. It is the story of an unhappy [[middle class]] French [[housewife]]. She longs for the kind of [[Romance (love)|romance]] and [[glamor]] that life in the country does not provide. After a few unfulfilling [[adultery|adulteries]], she [[suicide|kills herself]]. The story was first published in parts (serialization) in a [[magazine]]. It was thought [[obscene]]. Flaubert and his publisher were charged with [[immorality]], but were [[acquittal|acquitted]]. The story was a great success when published in book form in 1857. It is thought one of the greatest novels ever written. It has been adapted to different [[media]]. An American movie starring [[Jennifer Jones]] is perhaps the best known [[adaptation]] to Americans. [[Category:1850s books]] [[Category:1857]] [[Category:Adultery in fiction]] [[Category:Books first published in serial form]] [[Category:French novels]] [[Category:Suicide in fiction]] {{lit-stub}}