‘And now she could not think that the calm in which she lived was the happiness she had dreamed.’
Emma is a beautiful young lady who loved reading popular novels and yearned for the romances described in them. However, she chose to marry a rather dull country doctor and the exciting romance she expected never takes place. Frustrated and restless, Emma decides to pursue her fantasies no matter the cost.
Considered to be one of the greatest French novels of all time, Flaubert’s masterpiece is not merely a simple novel on adultery but also a devastating critique of French bourgeois life and all the excesses it entails.
Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist and is widely considered to be one of the greatest French novelists of all time.