Madame Bovary

Complete and unabridged, with 44 full-page plates by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas and Édouard Manet. A country doctor's wife in Normandy reads romances, takes lovers, runs up debts with a draper who is patient for exactly as long as it suits him, and reaches for the arsenic. Flaubert was prosecuted for offending public morals in 1857 and acquitted; he wrote at a page a week and read every se...