Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
Emma Ruo imagines that when she marries Charles Bovary, she will enter a life of luxury and passion, which she reads about in sentimental novels and women's magazines. But Charles is a bleak village doctor, and his provincial life is very different from the romantic excitement he longs for. In the desire to realize his dreams, he takes a lover and starts a destructive spiral into deception and despair.
