Madame Bovary

Complete and unabridged, with 99 full-page plates by Édouard Manet, Paul-Louis Delance and Luc-Olivier Merson. 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 ever...